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Yes, I have noticed the boomy quality with harps that I know have carbon fibre in the boards, over responsive and a lack of focus to the note, and also not enough attack. I’m not sure all Camac have carbon fibre, when I last asked an agent in the US, I was told “some do some don’t” and that he doesn’t find out till they arrive.
I was told once by a harp maker that you can check for carbon fibre by putting a flash light inside the soundbox against the soundboard, in the top octave. If it is wood, there will be a slight
I’ve only been playing the harp for about 7 months, but my college degree is in aeronautical/astronautical engineering and 17 – 23
Tookus! I love it, that is the best one yet!! Ooops I’m doing it again….but well you never know when you travel to a far off place for a gig and you get a sweat rash on your “derriere” that you may need to know the
Hi Kreig,
Yep, you are right, I’m mainly nervous about carbon fibre as it is “new” to harps and I’m unsure how it will react over time to our climate…once it’s been around a while and is “tried and true” I suppose it would not bother me as much. I also have to get used to the sound, as the few that I’ve heard do sound different.
I think the Camac Acoustic Electric is a better harp than the electrics from the other companies, as well, you have the acoustic option and they just seem to have a more attractive sound when amplified as
Well, I’ll play (Tasmanian) devils advocate here and say that I’m not so sure about the necessity of playing harp to write for it…I think in only 6 months or so you would only grasp the fundamentals and that may help but it also may limit your perception of what the instrument capable of…
Mahler did not play harp, neither did Ravel…and they wrote wonderful inspired music for the instrument. And there are plenty of harpists that write plodding trash! They are two different skills.
Some basic understanding is good, but the best way is (as Tony
PS – thanks for all that info Barbara – I find it all very useful to debate things openly and I really appreciate your comments…
PPS – the eyelets on my L&H are plastic…
I think the glues they use are either PVA – the white one, which is a light weight glue that they use as it is easy to remove if you need a repair (but can come apart with heat and humidity and cause unpleasant things like the join between the soundbox and soundboard to come apart…but at least the board will not split the join will give first…) And the second glue I’ve heard of is an epoxy resin, which they also use in boat building and floor covering!
From what I’ve been told, the problem is not so much that the harps are carbon fibre based, but that they are attempting to adhere carbon fibre to wood. Different substances need different glues. And it is quite difficult to find a glue that will adhere a plastic to a wood. So, you have the potential of seperation of the parts, especially with
She could also try dabbing her fingers in meths – methylated spirits a couple of times a day to dry out and harden her fingers. That is what I did as a kid, and it seemed to work for me.
Hmmm…Sorry S.S…twas a bit off track. But vaguely related, we went onto getting to the bottom of language differences instead of the bottom of..your bottom! Sounds like it was sweat rash..nasty! Glad the cushion worked..I think that was my idea a while ago….before I went silly on you!
What has all this got to do with a horrible rash on ones bottom. It’s certainly gone off track. For those of you interested in my dilema, I now sit on a cushion and have solved the problem.
Hi Danilo,
What a terrific post! I’m glad to hear from a composer that wants to write for harp!
There is a
I use hey…but then I’m a hippie…I very much like “might could”. I suppose Tasmanians have a few funny ones. They do not say semi circle, they say ‘half round’ and also instead of it being a long way away, they will say it is “a ways away”. You’ll be talking about something a few months away and they’ll say “oh that’s a ways away yet”. And they will use it for distance as well – “a ways up the road” , or “a ways from here”.
Australia is large, but we do not have the variation of accents that you do. And its more a country vs city accent. Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin are defintiely “country”! People in the main cities tend to sound mostly the same but there are a few different words here and there. There is a
Heidi,
Harp Journeys will be wonderful. Therese and Kimberly are amazing. I have gone to their “student version” of Harp Journeys 3 times- the HBU harp camp. I loved it!
I’m leaving on Sunday. Me and two other young girls are going to take harp lessons for the month of June with Elizabeth Richter! (Ball State)
Yay!
Andie Roeder
