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Hi! Guitar is read in violin key so there’s no need to transpose: if you have the sheet music (not the tab) of this song you should isolate the melody and the chords (that you already have). Guitar has a different tuning progression but a C chord (for example) on guitar has the same structure than the one on harp, You don’t need to tune again the harp and you shouldn’t care about guitar position because guitar has a completly different structure from harp as some notes are not only redoubled but you can find the same note on different positions. If you have the tab of the song you should trascribe it into conventional music score.
Unfortunately the owner lives in another city quite far from mine and I don’t want to ask to my teacher to travel eight hours by train in a day if I’m not sure it’s worth. The harp is sold at a very low price (something like 4.000 euros) and I admit the best thing is calling a technician even if I’d like to avoid to call him as he’s very difficult to find and very expensive. Maybe I can make the first trip to see the instrument and if I like it calling a technician. If I want to make a good deal this is the only way to be sure it is a good deal isn’t it? 🙁
Hi Tacye, thank you very much for your answer. I’m worried about missing strings because I’m not sure that the harp has been kept in tune during the years. The owner is not an harp player, he didn’t replace the strings because he doesn’t know how to do it and the strings have broken during the last four years. I’m aware about other problems (such as mechanism problems or structural problems) but I’m afraid about intonation issues that cannot be fixed. So another question: how can I understand if the harp has intonation problems? Anyway I hope that restring the harp will help to understand if the instrument is playable or not.
Hello! I’d like to ask a question: next week I’ll see a used harp which hasn’t been played for four years and unfortunately there are 11 strings missing (five strings between first and second octave, five strings in the third octave and one string in the fourth octave). Looking at the pictures that the owner has sent the whole structure seems to be in eccelent condition even if the harp is ten years old. So my question is: how much this missing strings can affect the playability of the harp? Can I put knew strings on the harp without breaking the soundboard? This harp is a Russian harp and it seems very solid (and the soundboard seems to be in perfect condition). Thank you in advance!
