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My harp is an 85CG and didn’t have wheels either – I used to slide it on hard floors (the front feet were round metal, presumably designed to slide), pick it up, use the trolley or ‘walk’ it from foot to foot.
I think one very important point is whether the teacher in question has taught the students how to learn pieces and cope without a teacher (to whatever level).
L&H used to sell useful looking wooden blocks and clamps for changing felts (not that I ever bought any- maybe no-one did which is why I can’t see them in the catalogue now).
I like them very much (I have a Pilgrim Clarsach made in 1987) and highly recommend the legs – they raise the harp to the perfect playing height for you to sit on a normal chair (if you try out the different leg heights and buy the right ones for you) and are so much easier to cart around than a special stool or stand.
Screws across the crack might be an idea to serve double duty as clamping the crack for glue and strengthening in their own right.
Wire marking pens are available here:
http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/emporium/accessories/
Some people use paint pens (make sure the paint is thin enough not to alter the sound).
There is a list of makers here:
In the UK there are a number of franken-harps made by combining the good parts from two or more harps- usually Erards.
At the Edinburgh Harp festival this year Diego Laverde played a concert swapping between two Columbian harps by the same maker which were in different keys, but one had the bass (and maybe more) strung in gut I would describe its sound as mellower than the other.
Have you found these sound samples?
