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Well, I would like to take the ad down, but I can’t — because the site uses a hard-coded “open up Outlook” email link. I cannot email to you through it, because I do not run Outlook, nor can I see what the address should be. I couldn’t even use the BACK button to return to this thread after being thrown into the “Open up Outlook” demand. I had to close out, log in again, and find this thread again from the forum index. Please just provide an email, so people can use whatever means of emailing you they like. I do not use Outlook.
I think the addition of classifieds to the FAQ page is a great idea. You may also like to have the site professionally tested by people using different browsers and hardware setups — things like the email issue should have been caught by whomever did your Web design. I have the impression that while this is a pretty design, it could be a little more user-friendly. Login can be onerous, and it is not at all intuitive to find various features. A site map might be a welcome addition to deal with those issues.
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Send me a message (I didn’t realize about the messaging system or I would have done that first instead of posting here). I’m not positive about shipping costs either, but I can look up what it cost when I got it and see. It shouldn’t be much different since I have the original box and all.It sounds interesting, but for a four- or five-hour distance course in a group of unspecified size, the price seems like it could possibly be a bit higher than some might be willing to pay.
Product #17(Professional Harp LDP-1, 47 strings)
47弦，从第一个八度G到第七个八度C (47 strings, from G1 to C7)
琴高：190㎝ (Height: 190cm)
宽度：102cm (Width: 102cm)
音箱宽度：55㎝ (Soundbox width: 55 cm)
重量：40㎏ (Weight: 40kg)
琴柱：桦木、枫木，全实木雕刻 (Pillar: birch, maple, all carved real wood)
音箱面板：云杉 (Soundbox face board: Spruce)
表面处理：轿车烤漆，白色和金色 (Surface treatment: Automobile paint, white and gold)http://www.eagleharp.com/ch/Product-17.htm
Price (in China, at least): RMB60,000 (exchange rate right now makes that USD $9,626 or so).
联系电话：13815874275传真号码：025-52160587
Phone: 13815874275 FAX: 025-52160587The Web site is still largely empty, even in the Chinese version…that probably doesn’t bode well. But it might be worth contacting them directly if you’re still interested. If you fax in English and write very simply, that will often work.
From their “About Us” page:
南京鹰派竖琴有限公司一直致力于高质量竖琴及相关产品的研制和生产。经过十多年的发展，研制所聚集了资深演奏家、高校教师、经验丰富的一线技术人员等行业内精英，构成了自己的研发团队。在综合修订了欧美传统制琴工艺的基础上，形成了自己独特的制琴工艺。所生产的鹰派竖琴品味高雅，音色优美、明亮，音质稳定，深受专业演出团体和专家的好评。鹰派竖琴作为国内竖琴的名派已经迈出国门，走向国际市场，产品远销欧美数十个国家。Nanjing Yingpai Harps Ltd. has been working hard to develop and produce high-quality harps and related products. Over the course of the past dozen-odd years, we have gathered talent including experienced performers, teachers from higher education, and front-line technicians with ample experience, to form our development team. On the foundation of perfecting traditional European and American harpmaking techniques, we have forged our own unique harpmaking method. Our harps are refined, their tone is lovely and clear, their sound is stable, and they are acclaimed by professional troupes and experts. Yingpai Harps serves as an export portal for domestically produced harps, moving into the international market, and its products are in use in over a dozen countries in Europe and the Americas.
I arrange. It shouldn’t be much of a problem to produce a simplified version of a difficulty approximately the same as, say, Sylvia Woods’ Christmas book, that kind of thing. It depends on the complexity of the original music as well — some things are just too chromatic to work well on lever harp.
Right now is a really bad time, though, with school starting, and will be for awhile.
The other problem is copyright. If you are arranging music for sale, you need to have either the copyright or the permission of the copyright owner to do that. I assume that videogame music is still under copyright, so maybe the best option would be to explore some of the “similar” pieces suggested by other posters, or else to try to contact the videogame company to see if you can get permission to make harp arrangements. (That would probably be a first for them!
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