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Supporting evidence for the 2nd version being published in 1856:
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/F6LFMHR4DGM9R61PULX9BLPG5ECY9NSIR99PS6XIFRY21TB17A-34605?func=full-set-set&set_number=129041&set_entry=000007&format=999The 1854 date is still from one unsupported source.
I don’t know, but I surmise the longer version came first as the shorter one is called the second both in my edition of the two together, and in copies I have seen which only have the shorter version.
I would be interested to hear if there is more knformation known by Russian players, but what I remember from researching the two variations a while ago is that
the original was lost and his sister wrote it out from memory.So long as harps are above freezing the only thing they are likely to be unhappy about as it gets colder is low humidity.
Lever harp music has relatively few chromatic changes during a piece, but may have interesting lever settings for the whole piece (Bb, Eb, Csharp and Fsharp for instance, or even different settings in different octaves).
They are Teifi’s own levers, and indeed promising.
As for the Delacour similarity:
http://www.harpcolumn.com/forum/message-view?message_id=1638905Have you seen that the Fitzwilliam have put photographs of their double action Egan dital harp online?
I (and colleagues on other less used instruments) do read in pieces I play in and don’t feel guilty or glared at by conductors.
I find the Hempson is a respectable student harp, easy and consistent to
play and with levers which, in my experience, do the job.
