Thomann were great, helped when delivery was delayed in this country. For what it is, the quality is excellent, the levers compared to my old harp are fantastic.
BUT
As a harpist of half a century experience, I was expecting this to be easier to play, so harpists beware. The string spacing is different to a concert harp, so that intuition of grabbing a cord will need to be relearned, and compared to concert stringing, the tension is different, but now I have the thing, what did I expect from a triangular harp? Harps are made with that graceful curve for a reason, an exponential curve related to the wavelength of sound, mess with that and the tension suffers.
Then there is the stand thing! What a joke, looks like beefed up egg box material, not something I would expect to come with a 7,000 quid + harp! Really Salvi, you lose my respect, couldn't you see how wrong it was?. The stand works when you want to put the harp down, but will not hold the harp vertically as shown in the images.
Then there is the strap! I thought it was secure, but was playing and suddenly the harp crashed to the floor! Luckily onto carpet, so no harm, but it could have been worse. So, really nervous now to rely on the strap.
Then there is the ergonomics. I had seen it being played, but it is only when I have the thing on the strap that I realise you have to be crumpled like a pretzel to play the thing. So uncomfortable, and all those years of getting the hand position right are worthless here.
Then also, all those little finger buzzes that go unnoticed on an acoustic harp get amplified. I do not know if that can be edited out afterwards in processing a recording.
I bought this for a purpose and wondering whether I need to rethink the whole plane and return the instrument, but that would also mean the amplifier and all the bits that go with it would have no purpose and would have to go too.
Edit, I took it out to play in the open yesterday, and everyone loved it, so maybe will keep. Will have to sort another strapping mechanism, this one is dangerous, slipped off again yesterday, luckily Icoiught it before it hit the ground.
