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Roughly… If your string is flat and you are tuning it up you are making the string tighter, but with pedal engaged the forks are grasping the string and it doesn’t slide past perfectly so some of the tightness is caught above the fork.

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I have a Pilgrim Clarsach. Very well made, pedal tension (the Aziliz is I think lighter tension), light weight and easy to move and extremely robust with handy legs so I can play it on any chair going.

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Pilgrim use their own levers (unless of course you ask for a special order) and will ship their harps.

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I have often ended up sightreading in orchestras – now and again in
concert too.

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But if you buy a 2nd hand harp at a fair price you can surely sell it on again for what you paid leaving the monthly cost considerably under that of rental.

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While I don’t know Walton’s harps, with old harps you need to treat them very much as individuals.

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The ‘cardboard’ harps are stronger than they sound, and readily repairable.

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I agree with Sherry that I have been favourably impressed by the ‘cardboard’ harps for the price.

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If it were mine I would take the tension off all the strings immediately- maybe you have already.

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Creighton’s collection

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In my experience of ‘smoked’ harps they absorb far less smell than clothes and the smell dissipates by itself faster than it does from clothing.

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Those dimensions are far thicker than any I have noticed on a harp I have played.

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A harp is a piece of fine furniture and can be treated as such, with the minor exception that you don’t want to add really heavy varnish to the soundboard.

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The Heartland Infinity is an inch shorter than the Pilgrim, but looks in the pictures like it may be wider front to back.

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I came across a set of rhythm syllables in Kodaly along with chromatic solfege (Do di re ri/me mi fa fi…).

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