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If the harp is worth whatever its asking price is now I don’t see why it
should be worth that much less in a years time- the difference would be
that you are a private seller rather than a dealer with resources and
reputation.Nothing quite as small that I can think of that is readily available in this country (I am pretty sure there are people who could custom make one though).
Hi Sheila, it sounds like you have fairly realistic expectations of this instrument, I hope it starts something for you which goes much further!
Hi Peter, There are some tutorials on youtube which are linked from the Teifi website which are worth looking at.
http://www.welsh-harps.com/harp_playing_lessons_video.phpUnless you have one already you will almost certainly want an electronic tuner to help you keep the instrument in tune.
I haul my 85CG around with a reasonable amount of abandon on a 3 wheel trolley- when I lived up one flight of domestic stairs I got it up and down by myself.
Play it, or clap it, and see if it sounds better with two accents per bar as 2/4 or four accents (of uneven strength) as 4/8.
If the uneven bit of the string is towards the bottom reversing it may well put it up above the nut where is it not part of the sounding length and does no harm.
Hi Jade,
I would advise you to make sure you are learning ideally on a harp which has pedal tension strings (and preferably gut strings as this is what most pedal harps have) with a teacher who will teach you orchestral technique. You can hire lever harps with this sort of stringing.
