[stardust]

Charlie and Tanya – thank you!! I have now emailed Aine, explaining my concerns. Will keep you posted.

[stardust]

Thanks for the reply, Evolène!

The seller is Muzikkon. Situated in Ireland. The harp parts are made abroad, and then assembled and tested in Dublin – I was initially sceptical about this, as the parts probably are produced in Pakistan… But the fact that Muzikkon is cooperating with a harp teacher made me decide to take the risk. My budget is rather limited.
As far as I know, Muzikkon is a rather new brand, but seemed to have received some favourable ratings online.

I admit it was a rather “desperate” purchase, as I live in Sweden where harps are basically extinct… And I wasn’t able to find a shop where I could try some out. So that, combined with the aforementioned budget, made me go for the Muzikkon harp when I found it.
It’s a nice harp, feels comfortable to hold (roundish back) and balances well when I play it. My only issue is with the strings, and then the fact that they didn’t give me a string chart or a warranty. Both of which I had kind of taken for granted that I would receive with the harp…
I have emailed the dealer about this. No reply yet.

You wrote,

“However, you are right, harps are built to fit specific string tensions. Furthermore, it wouldn’t make any sense to just swap the last string from E (or A) to C, because you would have a gap in strings.”

To make it clear, the bottom string isn’t the only one that is swapped if that is so – the strings are all in the correct order! Just beginning with a (red) C instead of the A that is shown in the picture.
Maybe there’s an explanation. I don’t know…

I hope I’ll receive some more information from them soon, so that this can be cleared up. I am very unfamiliar with harps in general – I only recently decided to get one, and there’s no harp teacher in my area so I’ll be taking online lessons and learning from books (got the one by Sylvia Woods for starters). I did some binge-reading and Youtube watching before I placed my order, and hoped that was sufficient. Apparently not…

Anyway, I appreciate your reply! And I’ll look into the link you provided me with. Thanks,

Stardust

EDIT: forgot to mention the price range! The harp cost me €567.00

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