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Certainly keeping your harp in college may involve keeping it in situations which are less secure than it is at home.
Just throwing in a random detail that may be of interest to some- it is possible to get bronzing powders which are mica based and as such do not tarnish the way conventional bronze powder does.
My 1899 Browne and Buckwell has/(had!) both water and oil gilding so don’t assume just because you have identified one area you have identified it all.
Gilding is complicated and as Carl pointed out you really don’t want to go wrong- so asking L&H and trying anything they suggest on a small area is probably the best bet.
Gilding is traditionally done by one of two methods- water gilding or oil gilding and they react very differently to various cleaning methods.
I have seen levers on harps of that make which were in completely the wrong place- so bad I could tell by eye without trying them.
Elgar 1 you will have plenty to do- it has first and second harp parts which are different and good parts to play.
Male dancers wear soft ballet slippers or character shoes so I don’t see why male harpists
shouldn’t.The exam syllabi at http://www.abrsm.org and http://www.trinitycollege.co.uk (click on music) are graded repertoire lists which may give you some ideas, though the lever harp lists are less varied than for pedal.
Surely competitions by their very nature are not egalitarian- and neither is the world of performance.
Alex- Come to Cambridge, best place to be a harpist if you don’t want to study performing or even music.
While on the topic of technique- what school of playing is shown in the picture of Roslyn Rensch’s hands at the back of Harps and Harpists?
