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You may be looking for the wrong composer. Zabel’s Marguerite au Rouet is op 19 – is this the right piece?
There are many makes of gothic harps, it refers to a pointy shape of historical harp, but you mention it in conjunction with the Pixie which makes me think you are looking at the rosewood instruments made in Pakistan under various brand names, especially including Mideast. There has been a lot written about them on this forum – I see no need to repeat it as I am sure you can find it on searching.
For an extreme budget instrument I am much more impressed by the ‘cardboard’ instruments such as the Waring harp or several others. If you can increase your budget slightly the Harpsicles are worth considering.
John Hoare of Pilgrim advised me to use an easily heat reversible method of keeping eyelets from popping out – shellac for instance.
This is an original harp composition, so not something I would expect to be arranged. I would say it is intermediate difficulty overall, though some variations are easier than others.
If it is too short then get higher legs for it. My Pilgrim Clarsach is 43″, 5 inches less than the Mia, but that is irrelevant as I have it on legs.
I can’t particularly remember the Mia, but short harps are very common in the UK. To play them you can sit on a low stool (which is probably what you are concerned about with feeling uncomfortable) but very many people raise the harp up, either on legs or on a stand.
Just as you can have high or low tension gut and nylon strings depending on the thicknesses chosen you can string harps high, medium or low tension with Fluoro.
And I don’t want one – I admire the innovation, but it seems a soulless tone generator rather than a warm, nuanced, individual musical instrument.
Another innovation for you! http://www.harptronics.com/
>Why are there no harp made of carbon fiber,
http://www.heartlandharps.com/models.html>no silent harp,
http://www.camac-harps.com/camac-harps-eng/dhcbluelight.html>no silent pedal actions operated by ultrasonic motors, no electric harps with built in tuners,
There have been attempts in these directions – cost of the instrument (6 tuners cost less than 47) and expectations that our harps will still work in a century’s time are among the reasons they haven’t taken off yet.>no MIDI harp,
http://www.sionedwilliams.com/midiharp.htm>no string made of more durable materials other than gut with similar tension and linear densities?
http://www.savarez.fr/anglais/alliance-kf-harp-strings.htmlI could have chosen different examples – but the last few decades have had a lot of R&D, especially in lever harps. Many people, myself included prefer the sound of wood and gut, but once you know where to look (it is a smaller world than the guitar) these things exist.
I suggest finding a teacher first as they can help, and will have ideas about the right harps to learn on. Dusty Strings are in Seattle and may be useful.
