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I have come to see that there is an intervention between the playing and the hearing of the harp and it is the visual beauty of the instrument. So play as well as you can and this magic will occur in the mind/eye/ear of the hearer. I find this helpful when coping with performance anxiety.
I could use a review of harp carts of all types if anyone can spare the time. I just bought a pedal harp and need a cart.
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Thanks to everyone. I went to SLC and played and had played for me several harps at two showrooms and put a deposit on a L&H 85GP which has a very sweet but resonant sound (at least to my ear’s and my husband’s) It is the last of the line being built in Chicago, and will be sent to Utah. I hope I like it as well as the one I played (already spoken for)
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I started at 64 and yes it is difficult, (but so are all the instruments in their own way) but it is “youthening”. I am convinced that making myself and my fingers do something that I never thought they could is good for your brain -I think I am making new neurons when I practice a difficult section 50 times. And finally my fingers DO it! That said, it is not a group instrument in the beginning or a sing along. It is not easily portable. and you may not really enjoy the beginning stages =it is a lot of practice but the more you practice the faster you get to the fun part. And it is easy on the ears for the one who has to listen to you practice . See if you can rent a harp , you won’t regret it even if you decide it is not for you.
I am looking for music intermediate pedal for How Great Thou Art and the Faure sounds nice so would like to get that music too. I haven ‘t done funerals but am thinking I should . Pie Jesu by Andrew Lloyd Webber is also nice and there is a nice simple version of it in Sylvia Woods ALW book
KathleenI started at 64! Now 6 years later I am halfway thru Suzuki Book 3which seems slow to me but seems Ok to others. As an older adult I travel a lot so miss playing for weeks at a time. My fingers now do things I never thought possible, and I am enjoying playing more now. I have a Salvi Egan lever harp which I love but need to move up to a small pedal harp for the music I will be playing in Book4 but my teacher doesn’t think the transition will be hard. I am assuming you want to be playing folk music from your description of your harp. It will take practice but you should be playing nicely in a couple of years, Good luck!
Thanks(!) for the contact with the folk harp website in Puget sound, I will investigate. I did post the harp in SLC Craigs list , for 4300 which is less than I see them selling for used at various websites and will see if I get any inquiries. If none in the SLC area I may post in the Puget sound area.
I am having some concerns about the size of the small pedal harps, the L&H Chicago 40 measures smaller height and width than my Egan, and I am thinking I’d like 44 strings. Am also considering a Camac since they are so much lighter than other pedalharps due to the cable connections. do you have any experience with these?
After some investigation, I looked have heard that the 85P or Chicago 40 is maybe too small, and am thinking of a larger harp, still hoping for lighter weight. I looked at preowned L&H 85 Grand Petite (44 str) but it was suggested to me by a l&H rep that the sound was dead, and less full than the 85 P. I have heard that the Camac is lighter and they have a 44 str Clio which is 68″ tall and 55 lbs. Any experience with Camac?
