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Thanks very much Elizabeth, that is really helpful. I have to say I agree with you, but was hesitant to come out and say it to the person involved, as she has a truck load of injuries and all her teachers so far have said it is too late to change. But I know a really
I’ve also heard that they take alot of trade ins and sell second hand harps…which is really very useful. As models change over time and as people are all so different it is great to be able to see a range of instruments.
I’d also like to say that there are so many other brands of harps the two
Hi June,
Thanks so much for that. Yes, I have only heard good things about the Virginia harp centre as well. And!
Great point Chris. Yes, there are lemon cars and lemon harps…so you always test drive them both! There is no way that you would buy a car unseen, so you should never buy a harp either! It’s too much of a risk. Especially if you make your living playing.
The best thing about Lyon and Healy, is that you can get a choice of harps – you can order a particular model and they will allow you to choose from maybe 4 or so. And even if you get a choice of one or two, well, at least you have test driven if before it gets sent to you. Not all the companies offer that, and expect you to order a harp and take it unseen.
And in my experience, even a lemon of a Lyon and Healy usually functions in a professional setting. It will hold its tuning, the mechanics are reliable, and it does what it has to do
Hmmm…. I don’t own a pedal harp, I own a lever harp. However! I really do feel that you take a risk anytime you buy something handcrafted such as a harp. Sometimes you get a bad one… sometimes you get a good one… Granted with pedal harps, the quality is usually much higher of lets say… A car??… Soooo You risk getting a lemon car… or lemon harp… As for my next opinion…If i’m going too pay that much money, I’m going too just flat out buy a Lyon & Healy, because it’s high quality has been around for like… 2349280398 years… LOL Soo anyways… Use my useless info as you wish =D
Hahaha.. Have a great weekend everyone!
Yes, well, some companies use and abuse the “playing in” tag as an excuse for some of the most outrageous things that are wrong with their instruments. You may for instance have 13 discs with loose prongs, and being told to play it and it will settle is just daft. You may have a harp riddled with buzzing, dead patches, and not holding its tuning for months on end. Playing it will settle down some of the tuning problems, but really after a couple of weeks the instrument should have climatised and be holding its tuning.
The playing in excuse will not make a silk purse out of a sows ear…it will not take a fundamentally flawed instrument that should never have been let out of the factory and turn it into something it just is not. And the problem is that some companies use it as a cover all excuse to pass off bad harps to unsuspecting and inexperienced harpists…
And put into that context, I think that these comments made by harpists are completely valid and people in the employ of companies,
Yes, I know. That actually has been worrying me a little about the new clunker that I finally got the company to take back…I lost over $13,000 on it as they retained some money without explanation and also with the exchange rate changing and freight etc. I’m worried that they may just
Reading all of the stories about things that have happened to old clunkers brings something to mind: What happens to NEW clunkers?
The previous owners and pink paint? I think that they attempted to sand back the original boards, put it in the “too hard” basket, painted over their botched attempt thinking it would hide the evidence, then hid that under even more hideous lime green carpet….
And think, all they needed was Dave’s extra special demonic paint stripper and kitchen handy heated harp!! ..fry eggs on the base board….grill cheese in the back of the soundbox…fill with water and steam clean the carpets… the uses for a demonic harp are endless…Who needs an exorcist in this consumer friendly and efficiently pragmatic
Oowwww….is that an additional extra that I can order??? As we have just stripped back the carpet on our oak floors and they are covered in….nasty lead based pink paint. We have started sanding them back and it is such a chore and really quite hazardous to ones health.
Hi again Jessica, I thought of another place for you to go. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have Touch Tours from their permanent collection going on all of the time. They also have Verbal Imaging Tours that are highly descriptive. Now they have a Touch Tour of American Ornaments that has American Decorative Ornaments and American Architecture. There’s also a Touch Tour on Ancient Egypt that is independent with a braille booklet and they will provide a guide if you want one. The Met’s telephone # is 212-879-5500 x 3561 and their email is access@metmuseum.org. If you ask , they may take you to see some of their harps that they have. Again, have fun! Cecelia
