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Does anyone have a harp (lever) arrangement of “To Make You Feel My Love”? Adele sings it but I believe Bob Dylan wrote it. A pretty song….I’d love to know it.
Hi Ben. What an exciting time for you! I have a Dusty and a Pratt Chamber Harp and far prefer my Pratt. John Pratt is the designer and craftsman for them and his work is simply amazing. His father actually designed the first Troubador for L&H so John has been around harps, design and forward-thinking about harps since he was a kid. If you can, check them out. Any instrument is such a personal thing—the sound, the feel, the look, the soul connection!
The Virginia Harp Center sells the sheet music for harp for several of the tunes from the Harry Potter movies.
Can you share what your dream harp stool is and possibly a website for us to check it out in case it is the perfect one for any of us too?!
Thanks!I have a Pratt Chamber Harp (got is Sept. ’10) and a Dusty Strings FH-32. Love them both and they are quite different. I play my Pratt 90% of the time and the Dusty 10%. I far prefer the sound and the tension of my Chamber Harp. It is a wonderful instrument and incredibly well made. I have a picture by picture documentation of the creation of my harp….amazing they only cost $5300 when you see what goes into making them. John Pratt is a lovely human being and a stellar craftsman. The only downside would be that he is quite busy so sometimes it can take a while before he replies to e-mails but his communications are clear and descriptive so well worth the wait.
My Pratt weighs about 50 lbs, my Dusty is about 29 lbs. Mostly I play at home so it really does not matter. The one or two times a year I take it out to a recital with my teacher and other students, there is someone to help me take it there and bring it back so no big deal. Still a lot easier than helping my friend move her L&H 100 pedal harp that is for sure!
Lastly, Pratt harps have Camac levers on them……I love them….they are like “butter”! Dusty STrings uses Loveland and I’m not sure why because they are significantly beneath the Camacs and Dusty STrings makes wonderful harps–not sure why they settle for the Loveland levers.
You might want to look into Susan Allen’s Summer Harp camp:
I too have a 13″ MacBook and no problems using Finale. There is a zoom so you can easily enlarge the part you are currently working on or reviewing. Laptop “mouse pads” as you call them are very easy to use with this program.
I rented a Camac Korrigan for a month or two and could not wait to take it back. I found the sound very ‘flat’ and a bit ‘plunky’. Just my opinion of course but you were asking for feedback!
I did say that the Pratt harp “won” but it meant it in a broad sense……not as if the other harps all lost and I did not say it was a contest. My choice of the word ‘win’ was a poor choice.
Kathy~
My apologies if I misrepresented something and I certainly am not trying to say that there was a “win”.
My experience with this forum is that it seems to conjure up a lot of defensiveness and lots of semantics. I often wish there was a ‘remove’ button so that one could remove what they wanted to share. I’m sorry I mentioned it.
Rachel, your term, “Harp Tasting” is perfect since it is not a competition and yes, there are not official judges but let’s face it, as humans, we judge all day long. I will ask John Pratt what the event was. He posted the news on the Pratt Harp FaceBook page.
I think you got it right. The term “ram’s head” is used in wood working and means when something has a rounded shape to it—-like the curled horns of a big horn sheep/ram. The Pratt Chamber Harp does have a “ram’s head” and yes, the capital plates are on either side of it. John Pratt does use the term “ram’s head” to describe the shape but uses the ” ” when he does.
Scrolled head would not really be accurate for his harps because it does not “scroll” and the wood is not carved as if it were a scroll.
Hope this helps.
I use State Farm Insurance. They have a policy for musical instruments.
I have a Dusty Strings that has a replacement value of $4500. and a Pratt Chamber Harp that has a replacement value of $5300. I am fully covered for ANYTHING that happens to the harp and it costs $47. per year. (This is not coverage for a professional….just a person who has harps at their home and sometimes takes them to recitals or to a friend’s house).
My DS fell over once and the column had a cosmetic blemish that just broke my heart. Shipping and repair of the cosmetic issue was about $700. They paid the whole thing and it was shipped to and from Dusty Strings (incidentally, they did a fabulous job fixing the little ‘gaff”.)
