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Thank you Biagio, I will look into those groups, I imagine they will be very helpful along my building journey 🙂
Thank you for all of this info and advice!!!!! As far as why I want to build a harp, it is definitely for the experience of making an instrument myself and what I will learn along the way. I am hoping that by the time the harp build is finished that I may very well feel comfortable enough to put on the levers myself. I prefer Camac levers (I am reading and bookmarking Rick Kemper’s Camac lever installation guide and bookmarking for future reference).
I have plenty of time to go back and fort on how many levers to add and if I will do it or have someone install those 🙂 I’ll see how it goes, I am sure I will have other questions once the build begins – I am excited tot get started!!!
I can answer the last question for you :). You do indeed tilt the harp back and rest it on your shoulder – both pedal harps and lever harps are tilted back when you play. As far as what happens to the pedals when you tilt the harp back, they are high enough off the ground that they still remain high off the ground when you tilt the harp back.
Biago!!!!!! I had not heard of that book of lead sheets before, so as a side note I am so glad you mentioned it I just purchased it and what a treasure trove of music it is!!!!
I definitely agree with Andy’s post above of the 50 Christmas Carols arr by Sylvia Woods! That is a great Christmas book to have is full of lovely easy to play arrangements!
In addition, on of my favorites is from another collection of hers – I love the Silver Bells arrangement from her ‘Four Holiday Favorites’. It has Silver Bells ( so pretty), Frosty the Snowman, Let it Snow and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (another of my favorites to play!).
harpist 123 – how funny, the harp I was talking about in my previous post about the loos leg was also a Triplett Eclipse (which I did really enjoy playing!)
Ok, this may not be the issue but just in case, perhaps it is a loos foot on the harp? I only say this because I had that issue with my very first rental harp and I just could not find the problem but I noticed when I was tuning it and had all 3 feet on the ground there was no buzz. I finally found that one of the feet was the tiniest bit loose (I would never have seen it) and I tightened it and no more buzz.
I played on an Isolde for lessons but when the time came to buy, I tried out as many harps as I could get my hands on and I purchased the Excaliber. The string tension is tighter and it felt great to me, but I also greatly preferred the sound. It’s sound is quite massive I feel, especially for a lever harp. Very crisp and just wonderful and HUGE. The Isolde is a very nice harp as well, but had a looser feel and nowhere near the volume, clarity or volume of the Excaliber.
Definitely play them both, as they are both very nice lever harps. I have not had the opportunity to play the Aziliz.
I have had no personal experience playing these harps.
But here is a link to David Harps website which may be a little helpful!
I do love reading these threads, always like seeing what people are working on!
I am working on Dussek’s Harp Sonata in C minor (so beautiful!), Au Bord Du Ruisseau H. Renie and Feuilles D’Autumne Hasselman. I am really enjoying these pieces and I can’t decide which I like the best, every time I switch to practicing the next piece I keep saying ‘oh this one is definitely my favorite!’. I think they sound nice at various tempos, so it is very rewarding for me that even as I practice them downtempo they still sound so lovely.
