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Some more thoughts: Virginia Harp Center and Atlanta Harp Center are Camac dealers in the U.S. You could contact one of them to see what they would suggest. Possibly there are touch up kits for Camac harps. If you are not in the U.S., go to the Camac website to find a dealer in your country. A dealer could give you contact information for a certified harp technician in your area. Regards, Richard

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If it is natural color (versus stained) – which it probably is being the soundboard, try taking a walnut meat (the part of the walnut you would eat – not the shell), break it in half (to fully release the oil in the nut meat), and rub the ding with the broken edge of the nut meat. I have repaired quite a few dings to maple and to walnut harps and furniture using this method. I also was able to take out a whole bunch of scratches and dings on someone’s natural cherry lever harp using walnut meats. I keep walnuts around for this purpose. Best of luck!

[richard-hagan]

Hello Alesha –

Campbell Harps in Port Townsend, Washington makes a triple row harp.

~ Italian Triple-Row Harp

Regards, Richard

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Hello Sara

There is an excellent harp store in Walnut Creek — Harps, Etc. Bart goes to Walnut Creek from San Francisco and it is just a couple blocks of walking to get to Harps, Etc. from the Bart Station. Quite possibly they would rent time on a harp in the shop.

http://www.harpsetc.com/

Richard

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Hello Gretchen

I am assuming that you found that what I wrote implied that Bird and Peters wrote the song itself and not the arrangement for harp! (I was so embarrassed after I hit submit and then re-read what I wrote).

Richard

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Hello Gretchen —

There is a fun arrangement for harp of “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” by Chuck Bird and Susan Peters.  It is in the Pops Book 1 published by the Michigan Harp Center.

http://www.michiganharpcenter.com/publications-by-mhc.html

Regards, Richard

 

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Opps. I had the url wrong — there is no “s”. Try http://www.enchantedharp.com

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Hello Meg —

You might want to see if Enchanted Harps (www.enchantedharps.com) will rent a harp for you to use. They are in Puyallup.

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Hi Jessica —

You might want to explore having a bench made to order. I can recommend both BBR Woodworks and Paul Jansen Piano benches. They both make very nice benches and can work to match the finish of your harp. From Paul Jansen I recommend that you look at the Petite Artist Bench. The size of it is really nice for harpists. The adjustment mechanism that they use is really excellent quality. You might even be able to find one that you like at a local piano dealer. Both BBR and Jansen can work with fabric or leather that you provide.

Their URLs are:

http://www.bbrwoodworks.com/

http://www.pljansen.com/benches.php

[richard-hagan]

I am not sure if this helps — Lyon and Healy lists two dealers in Seoul:

COSMOS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Tel: +822-348-6001-1
Fax: +822-348-6004-4
cosmos@cosmosmusic.com
http://www.cosmosmusic.com
1461-9 Seocho-Dong, Seocho-Gu
Seoul, Korea

SHIMRO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CO., LTD.
Tel: +82-2-544-9934
Fax: +82-2-544-9924
marketing@shimro.com
701-5 Banpo-1-dong, Seocho-ku
Seoul, Korea

[richard-hagan]

Not meaning to take this away from the discussion of Samuel Pratt’s book, I thought you all might be interested in the program from a concert that I attended a couple of years ago (1969) that Roberta Peters and Samuel Pratt gave. Samuel Pratt accompanied her with harp (a Troubador) on one set of songs and flute on others. I have rarely gone back stage to get autographs but my best friend and I were star struck teenagers and so we were second and third in line to get their autographs. (After all, Ms Peters did invite the audience to come backstage…) The attachment is a PDF scanned copy of the program — I am hoping it attached okay.

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Hi Katie —

I was intrigued by your question. I went to google and searched on “helen rogers harp” and found some information.

Here is the link to a very nice article on her:

http://columbiaheartbeat.blogspot.com/2011/11/heavenly-gift-woman-takes-lifelong-love.html

I also found a photo off her but the site kept asking if I wanted to download the picture my mobile device and would not stop popping up the dialog window and I had to kill Windows Explorer. (So be warned…)

Regards, Richard

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Hi Lynn —

I looks like you can two different arrangements (one with part for piano and one without) by Henriette Renie from http://www.lyramusic.com. (I am making an educated quess that this is the version that Markus Klinko recorded on the album “French Impressions” — I found a copy via Amazon Marketplace.)

There are also various arrangements available from http://www.harp.com.

I did not see any that were by Carlos Salzedo.

As a sidelight, it does not surprise me that Henriette Renie made an arrangement because I know that she composed some chamber pieces for harp that are very similar to the arrangement of the Debussy that Klinko plays on the above mentioned album.

Regards, Richard

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Some of the ledgers are now available online. http://www.sebastienerard.org/en/ It looks like piano and harp serial numbers were logged together.

From the home page:

History of the centre

The Centre Sébastien Erard is the research branch of the Gaveau-Erard-Pleyel archives, property of the AXA insurance group. The centre was created in 2010, in partnership with the Association Ad Libitum, Centre International du Pianoforte, in order to make the archives more accessible to scholars. The Gaveau-Erard-Pleyel archives are composed of the instrumental and archival collections of the three most important instrument-making firms in France. This archive (of instruments, books, correspondence, ledgers and account books, patents, royal privileges, engravings, paintings, photographs, drawings, tools, films, etc.) tells the story of harp and piano making from the end of the eighteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century, in France and all over the world. To consult a complete catalogue of the archives, click here.

Contents
This site will make accessible:

■Ledger books and early administrative documents

■Correspondence
■Iconography
■Instruments
■Films
Rights and reproduction
All unauthorized reproduction of these images is strictly prohibited. For all questions regarding these archives, please contact: the Centre Sébastien Erard.

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Hi Lyn —

Just one more thing that I have found with pickups — the wire it rather thin and can break fairly easily. Avoid wrapping it around the tuner or otherwise bending it. The wire (somewhere on the inside) broke after about 2 years. Now I hang my pickup in the closet with it is not in use. I clip so to a thin something or other on the top shelf and it just hangs free. I rarely take my folk harp out of the house and I have no intent of taking the pedal harp out (ever), so I hope to not lose too many more pickups. (But I do keep a spare one…) It was funny — my teacher’s tunerstopped working, I suspected that it was the pickup os I took it home with me and tried it with my tuner and yes the wire had broken. No more than 2 weeks later, my pickup broke.

Regards,
Richard

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