[Karen Johns]

Hi Audrey-

I have a walnut Limerick wire harp that I recently built from a Musicmaker’s

[Karen Johns]

I have a Limerick model wire-strung harp that I play with my finger pads and it sounds beautiful. I refer to Pamela Bruner’s recording “Irish Journeys” as proof of this beautiful sound with finger pads on wire strings. She plays the same model on this recording and the sound is ethereal. I also play a Voyageur nylon/gut/bass wire harp from Musicmaker’s. The only difference in playing that I have seen thus far is the tremendous sustain of the wire strings and the feather-light responsiveness. A real pleasure to play simple tunes on- you don’t need to “fill-in” as much with chord accompaniment. Simple single notes within a chord sound nice on the left hand as a counterpoint to Celtic melodies, which is what I mostly utilize this harp for.

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