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I am shopping for a new harp. Glee!
I'm considering two makers: Ardival Harps and Lynne Lewandowski. With an unlimited budget, I'd buy a half-dozen; on a budget, just one.
Which one?!? Just from Ardival: I like the ancient look of the Rosemarkie, and I love the lines on their new Kentigern. *drooldrool* But both of those are gut-strung, and I have a nylon strung folk harp already. The Kilcoy is a small wire-strung, and I like small and want to get a wire instrument. But I also love deeper bass notes, so there's the wire-strung Rose.
One decision is easy: for the price of the Rose, I could buy the Kilcoy and the Kentigern. So, no Rose.
I think it's a toss-up at the moment between the Kilcoy and the Kentigern. The Kentigern's 50% more money than the Rosemarkie, but I'm absolutely enchanted with it. D'oh, wait - they can string the Rosemarkie with B and B-flat? For Pythagorean tuning... augh! Oh, I so want that. But the Kent's designed so you can fret the strings along the neck and get semitones... augh! Clearly I need to rob a bank.
I'm mostly waiting to hear from Lynne Lewandowski on a custom-built 12-string harp - a teeny tiny little thing! It'd be for my early music research. A wire harp would just be for beautiful music and fun. (Right now, the peoples and times I'm looking at wouldn't have played wire.)
I'm considering two makers: Ardival Harps and Lynne Lewandowski. With an unlimited budget, I'd buy a half-dozen; on a budget, just one.
Which one?!? Just from Ardival: I like the ancient look of the Rosemarkie, and I love the lines on their new Kentigern. *drooldrool* But both of those are gut-strung, and I have a nylon strung folk harp already. The Kilcoy is a small wire-strung, and I like small and want to get a wire instrument. But I also love deeper bass notes, so there's the wire-strung Rose.
One decision is easy: for the price of the Rose, I could buy the Kilcoy and the Kentigern. So, no Rose.
I think it's a toss-up at the moment between the Kilcoy and the Kentigern. The Kentigern's 50% more money than the Rosemarkie, but I'm absolutely enchanted with it. D'oh, wait - they can string the Rosemarkie with B and B-flat? For Pythagorean tuning... augh! Oh, I so want that. But the Kent's designed so you can fret the strings along the neck and get semitones... augh! Clearly I need to rob a bank.
I'm mostly waiting to hear from Lynne Lewandowski on a custom-built 12-string harp - a teeny tiny little thing! It'd be for my early music research. A wire harp would just be for beautiful music and fun. (Right now, the peoples and times I'm looking at wouldn't have played wire.)
