This be the answer to my dream harp alternative to a lever harp! Like a piano, the regular notes (white) and the sharps/flats (black) keys are pretuned: to shifting of levers! You could play music scored for piano on the cross harp!
nylon strings i presume, a lot like my classical guitars they take a while to stop stretching, stringing your harp up with new strings would seem a little time consuming, much more that a 6 string guitar. the interesting thing is most stringed instruments have fret boards and a few strings, the harp has no fret board and all the notes are required by separate strings. great explanation on the cross string set up.
I often thought that if I got one of those Waring harp kits - but a double-strung one - I would have one side tuned to the accidentals so I'd have more of a range out of a (usually) 19-string (or 16-string) harp. I thought I was being so avant-garde, but turns out I was just thinking along the same progressive line of reasoning. 👍😎
I heard so much about it. how do you like it? and does it stay in tune and how do you like the sound of it? there is just so many people saying so many bad things about these harps. I want to hear from someone who own one.
Perhaps if you're looking for a larger style harp, those people's complaints might be relevant. I bought this three octave cross-strung harp to be able to learn the cross-strung system. I have no complaint about the tone, nor the construction, and the price seems very reasonable to me. I bought it 3 years ago, and have had it packed away for most of that time. I just took it out the same day I think that you commented on this video, and without having tuned it for over two years it had held its tune VERY well. Especially considering that the harp is an instrument that people often tune more than once a day. If you meet someone who is complaining about their Roosebeck harp, maybe you could ask them since they're dissatisfied with it whether they might be willing to sell it to you. If it's as bad as they're saying it is, then you should be able to buy it from them for cheap. If they expect you to pay a higher price, then maybe it's not as bad as they are suggesting it is. As I said I have just taken it out again with the intention of finally getting around to learning it as I meant to 3 years ago. I also re-arranged the strings 3 years ago in a new system that I think may be worthwhile, but that's what I have to start really practicing to find out.
Thanks, you just answer my question. I have been playing the harp for over 20 years and I have a beautiful McFall harp that was built by Salvi harps. but I was looking for a small harp that would not cost much to take to the woods. because here at home in Louisiana I like to play the harp in my back yard which have a lot of woods and birds. I think I will take a chance on one of these Roosebeck harps.
@@sandragayle5863 Lucky! I'm with the lady in the video in that my harp is packed away right now (due to circumstances beyond my control!). Boy, do I miss it!!
True. 🎸 Classical guitars have 19 frets, which would amount to about 3 and 1/2 octaves. But the average nonprofessional player like myself, is unlikely to go much beyond the 12th fret of the top string. So for most people, I think a 3 octave range on the harp would be about equivalent to what they would typically use on a guitar. Thanks for your factual information about guitars.
Tengo dificultades para traducir tu pregunta al inglés para que sepa exactamente lo que estás preguntando. Las cuerdas de un lado son las notas naturales de la escala C, las teclas blancas de un piano. El otro lado son las 5 teclas negras del piano.
Actually, a lever harp (with fine levers) should make more sense than a 7/5 cross strung harp, since the 7/5 stringing does not really offer you any practucal transposition possibilities and is more difficult to play and to master. A 6/6 stringing makes more sense here with regards of regularity and ease of transposition. But unless you want to play highly chromatic music (which usually sounds disharmonic and thus unpleasant with very few exceptions), I'd still go for a lever harp. On a lever harp you simply turn the levers you need for the sheet music which you're using and don't have to bother for anything, which makes playing sheet music on the harp much easier than playing sheet music on piano or guitar.
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Good info thank you
This be the answer to my dream harp alternative to a lever harp! Like a piano, the regular notes (white) and the sharps/flats (black) keys are pretuned: to shifting of levers! You could play music scored for piano on the cross harp!
I'm looking through your videos trying to find one were you may grace everyone with playing a tune.
nylon strings i presume, a lot like my classical guitars they take a while to stop stretching, stringing your harp up with new strings would seem a little time consuming, much more that a 6 string guitar.
the interesting thing is most stringed instruments have fret boards and a few strings, the harp has no fret board and all the notes are required by separate strings. great explanation on the cross string set up.
It arrived with all the strings in place, just tuned about half an octave flat. They're holding their pitch nicely now, a week later.
I often thought that if I got one of those Waring harp kits - but a double-strung one - I would have one side tuned to the accidentals so I'd have more of a range out of a (usually) 19-string (or 16-string) harp. I thought I was being so avant-garde, but turns out I was just thinking along the same progressive line of reasoning. 👍😎
I bought it online from the InstrumentalSavings (dotcom) website. It was about $450.
very informative thanks!
is that a Roosebeck cross strung harp? and where did you get your harp?
Yes. Here is the link: www.instrumentalsavings.com/Caitlin-Harp-TM-p/hcta.htm
I heard so much about it. how do you like it? and does it stay in tune and how do you like the sound of it? there is just so many people saying so many bad things about these harps. I want to hear from someone who own one.
Perhaps if you're looking for a larger style harp, those people's complaints might be relevant. I bought this three octave cross-strung harp to be able to learn the cross-strung system.
I have no complaint about the tone, nor the construction, and the price seems very reasonable to me.
I bought it 3 years ago, and have had it packed away for most of that time. I just took it out the same day I think that you commented on this video, and without having tuned it for over two years it had held its tune VERY well. Especially considering that the harp is an instrument that people often tune more than once a day.
If you meet someone who is complaining about their Roosebeck harp, maybe you could ask them since they're dissatisfied with it whether they might be willing to sell it to you. If it's as bad as they're saying it is, then you should be able to buy it from them for cheap. If they expect you to pay a higher price, then maybe it's not as bad as they are suggesting it is.
As I said I have just taken it out again with the intention of finally getting around to learning it as I meant to 3 years ago. I also re-arranged the strings 3 years ago in a new system that I think may be worthwhile, but that's what I have to start really practicing to find out.
Thanks, you just answer my question. I have been playing the harp for over 20 years and I have a beautiful McFall harp that was built by Salvi harps. but I was looking for a small harp that would not cost much to take to the woods. because here at home in Louisiana I like to play the harp in my back yard which have a lot of woods and birds. I think I will take a chance on one of these Roosebeck harps.
@@sandragayle5863 Lucky! I'm with the lady in the video in that my harp is packed away right now (due to circumstances beyond my control!). Boy, do I miss it!!
24 fret guitar has 4 octaves, not 3
True. 🎸
Classical guitars have 19 frets, which would amount to about 3 and 1/2 octaves. But the average nonprofessional player like myself, is unlikely to go much beyond the 12th fret of the top string.
So for most people, I think a 3 octave range on the harp would be about equivalent to what they would typically use on a guitar.
Thanks for your factual information about guitars.
Me gustaria saber porcuanto salen Las cuerdas clavijero clabiro de separation ya que soy artesano de curdas.
Tengo dificultades para traducir tu pregunta al inglés para que sepa exactamente lo que estás preguntando. Las cuerdas de un lado son las notas naturales de la escala C, las teclas blancas de un piano. El otro lado son las 5 teclas negras del piano.
Actually, a lever harp (with fine levers) should make more sense than a 7/5 cross strung harp, since the 7/5 stringing does not really offer you any practucal transposition possibilities and is more difficult to play and to master. A 6/6 stringing makes more sense here with regards of regularity and ease of transposition. But unless you want to play highly chromatic music (which usually sounds disharmonic and thus unpleasant with very few exceptions), I'd still go for a lever harp. On a lever harp you simply turn the levers you need for the sheet music which you're using and don't have to bother for anything, which makes playing sheet music on the harp much easier than playing sheet music on piano or guitar.
Good point!🤔