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Tony, it depends
For me triple is much more convinient than any other versions of harp. Maybe, this is personal: I cannot play pedal harp, for example, and always also take my hat off to pedal harpists. I have no idea how to connect legs and hands… but on any harp I always play with closed eyes or looking to somewhere else and know the all notes position by fingers (I cannot explain it right in English – and in Russian it’s useless, yeah?). When you look at triple – you can lost yourself in strings forest! I had no such problem from the very begining. Andrew shown me some basical moments – and my life finally came easier. BTW, the second point in my happiness – Lawrence-King is really wonderfull teacher.Thanks, Karen!
They are originally Italian and then involved to Welsh music tradition (around 17-18th), if I’m not mistaken.
It is not hard – it’s unusial: you need to come through 2 strings to the middle-row (half-tones), but you can play the dubling without loosing a sound – cosmos! You also can play too many tunes impossible for pedal and lever harp (but triple-impossible tunes also are). The spacing is a little wider than on lever harp and probably on a pedal – for tone-rows, – but while the halftones are middle, the subjective spacing is convinient. The tension is very light and you need to play closer to the soundboard. Hands are staying a little bit another way, if you play without the traditional maneer, – and deffinetly other way, if you’re good girl and play as Andrew Lawrence-King shown (by the way, quite more sutable!).
Yes. My “De Viaggio” and “Cellini” are designed by Rainer Thurau himself, and I love this design. They both are really a piece of art!
Dear Gretchen,
The Serenity is THE BEST lap harp I ever had to try out.
Being a harpmaker myself, I have generally no questions to construction, finishing and the sound. She is light and amasingly loud for her size. Very sweet harp, ant the best choice while you want generally a lap harp.
Even when you thereafter decide to turn to the
I told, she sounds very sweet for her size and price. Good bargain. The weight is ~3kg – you can hold it with one finger!
24 is better than 22, isn’t it? I saw only with 24 and never know about other model.
Meaning the lap harps, that is my prefer after Heartland Serenity.
Briggs,
my friend here has one of those 22 string “County Kerry” and she gave me it for some weeks once. I had no problem with string changing (yep, one broke) – simply I installed strings from outside, than make bend
I have no info about camac Troubadour, but, sorry for my 5 cents, that is one of the WORSE lap harps I ever heared and touched (3 is a statistyc, isn’t it?). No sound. No sustain. Only the levers are good. And even the Harpsicle is almost better. For the lap harp you’d better take a look to this http://www.elderly.com/new_instruments/items/GH24.htm
Wow! Congratulations and happy harping!
20+ harps… sounds amasing. And how many at the same time for today? (My friends are loughing at me while I have 4 different harps, but thinking about another different 2)
I don’t like pedal harps, but there’s only one pedal harp in the world I change my triple for: http://www.thurau-harps.com/harps/jde_gabriel.htm
My 5 cents in general:
There is a very thin border between an avangard music and (pardon) chromatical masturbation about “those sick sad world”. The last one has nothing to music. And a harp, meaning it is healing and peacefull instrument because of it’s acoustic species, is not a brain-crushing instrument. Archetypes? Probably – but you can never imagine bloody drugged ugly punk riping the harp strings. Only in nightmare – but you need to have a sick sad ™ inner world for this. Some archetypes must stay untouched. There are too much shit in a world and there’s NO reason to express it with the only one instrument, which is the incarnated
Hi, Bernard,
They look really nice – both appearance and construction, – but I join Carl about price question.
We are making our Selena levers with a kind-of-the-same principle, but cheap enough.
Am I blind or they are particulary moulded?
