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Emily, I found your post very inspiring.

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I don’t know about titanium, but Camac uses aluminum alloy for the action plates and to connect the column to the soundboard inside the base, and carbon fiber for the column.

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Maria, yes, an electromechanical solenoid is an electromagnet.

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Maria and Barbara, I think you’re right–it would probably take a company like Camac (who makes both lever and pedal harps, and who “sticks its neck out” with innovations) to pull off such a harp.

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Maria, I’ve been thinking about this myself.

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Barbara, I think you are taking what I’m saying way beyond my intentions.

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But Barbara, pedal harps don’t have to be huge.

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Barbara, it’s just economy of scale–the fewer pedal harps that are produced, the higher the per-unit production (and distribution) cost.

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Absolutely.

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I found a video on tying harp string knots on harpconnection.com:

http://www.harpconnection.com/movies/KnotTie.html

It shows the typical two-loop (one through the other) approach, the same as on the “Fun From the First!” booklet and on that other URL I posted.

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The booklet “Fun From the First!” volume I by Sam Milligan has a page on tying the knots on harp strings.

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Leopold Auer is held to be one of the greatest violin performers and teachers ever.

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Hey Shannon: I am also a mathematician of sorts (I have a degree in Math/Computer Science and do computational programming), so I completely understand working out such things!

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Great question.

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Connie, I suggest asking the publisher to correct the mistake and replace all the misprinted sheet music with corrected music; you (or the church) would then either send back to the publisher the misprinted sheet music, or destroy it, according to what the publisher wants done with the misprints.

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