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| Meghan Harp and 3 Play Books FREE | 
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| Brand: Mid-East Manufacturing
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $1,999.99
Buy New: $1,027.50
You Save: $972.49 (49%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 44025
MPN: HMGA
UPC: 823951000482
EAN: 0823951000482
ASIN: B000GDVSWU
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | 36 DuPont hard nylon strings | | • | Approximately 51" high along the tallest side | | • | 31 sharpening levers | | • | 3 Harp books ~ free (shipped separately) | | • | 1-year warranty on frame |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This is a beautiful brand new harp that is one of our most popular harp for beginners. It's 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Shipped via UPS with tracking and is insured. 36 DuPont hard nylon strings, a range from C two octaves below Middle C to C above High C. Engraved and inlaid rosewood frame and a plywood soundboard for exceptional sound and strength.Included for Free ~ 3 Harp Books.1) Fun with the Folk Harp - Want to get started playing the harp? This book will show you how. Written explanations and plenty of songs help you play right away. You are introduced to the symbols used in harp music, the basics of note reading, and fingering. There are new pieces, old pieces, silly pieces, and serious pieces for you to play. And there is a part showing you how to care for your harp and replace strings. Take this book home and learn on your own, or take it to a teacher and get some specialized help. It works both ways!2) Arranging for Folk Harp by Kim Robertson: This book illustrates a variety of accompaniment patterns and arrangement techniques for the folk harpist. The procedure taught in this book will enable the intermediate to advanced harper to play any melody beautifully on the pedal free harp.3) Easy Celtic Harp Solos by Star Edwards: Evoke the traditional sounds of the Celtic lands with these instrumental arrangements of songs for solo Celtic harp. These 25 tunes are Manx, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, Hebridean, and Bretton, including pieces by Turlough O'Carolan and Robert Burns. Notes at the end of the book give insights into the meanings of the texts of the songs, aiding interpretation and inviting you to experience the ambience of the Celtic lands through their music. Lyrics for selected songs are given in the notes in English. * 5-year warranty on the soundboard * Extra String set & Tuning Tool included * Shipped insured * Brand New!
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| Customer Reviews:
Don't Waste Your Money! November 26, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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I found this harp to be extremely unsatisfactory. Not only do I not recommend it, I must warm people against buying it. I wish I could give it negative stars!
My harp arrived at the end of June 2007. The first time I tuned it, a string broke due to a burr on the tuning pin. The enclosed booklet showed how to change a string, but not which replacement string (included) to use.
Next, I found that about half of the sharpening levers were out of alignment causing the sharpened string to "twang". The company told me that it is very easy to adjust the levers, but it is not. Each lever requires a considerable amount of tweaking in order to get it into the exact position where the sharpened note is in tune but no longer twangs. I had problems even loosening the screw! It took the expert, experienced harp technician to whom I eventually took it 2-1/2 hours to adjust all the levers, and cost me several hundred dollars.
However, the worst was yet to come. One afternoon in the beginning of Nov. 2007, I started tuning the harp and noticed it had gone badly out of tune though it had been fine 24 hours earlier and had "seasoned" enough to hold a tune more than 24 hours. A glance at the tuning pins revealed that there was a large crack in the harp's neck. This cannot be repaired, by the way, rendering the harp useless. I had only had it 4 months!!
I contacted the vendor from whom I had bought the harp who informed that all warranty claims had to be handled by Mid-East. Mid-East informed me that their 1 year warranty on the frame covered only repair and/or replacement so I couldn't return the harp and get my money refunded as I'd had it longer than 30 days. My harp would be replaced, but only after I returned the harp to them in Florida. At my expense.
I had no idea who to use to ship it and asked Mid-East for suggestions. All they would say is it could not be shipped UPS (they were wrong) and I'd have to find a local shipper who would ship it from my home in Wisconsin to them in Florida. After much searching for a shipper with reasonable rates, I finally discovered that not only would UPS take it (and come pick it up from my home), they were the cheapest. However, it still cost me close to $200.
And Mid-East couldn't tell me when my replacement harp would arrive. It depended on what they had avaiable when my return had been processed (which could take a while) and could be several weeks or several months! As it is the holiday season and I have quite a few playing commitments, I have had to rent a harp to use in the interim.
All in all, I am very dissatisfied with both the vendor (Apollo's Axes) and Mid-East Mfg. Neither of them was in the least bit helpful, nor were they at all interested in seeing that I, their customer, was satisfied. I wanted to just return the harp and get my money back, but neither would do that despite their "100% satisfaction guaranteed" promise. "100% satisfaction guaranteed" only applies to the first 30 days after purchased. Pray that nothing happens after those 30 days because if it does, the only "satisfaction" you'll get is a similar harp with no guarantee that it's quality will be any better considering Mid-East's quality control is non-existent.
Again, I cannot stress strongly enough: Stay Away From This Harp!! While its price makes it attractive, it just isn't worth the risk. And it is liable to cost you a lot more in the long run. With what I now have invested in the harp (which I still don't have, by the way), I could have bought a much better harp from a much more trustworthy and reputable dealer who would actually take pride in his workmanship and stand behind his products.
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