A Beautiful Sight

     I have the good fortune of being able to sit in on D2's harp lessons. Last week I took a book with me, but I was so fascinated by the teaching and distracted by the beautiful sound, that my book became lonely. There are usually five or more harps in the studio when we're there.
     I found myself studying a beautiful pedal harp. There are two types of harps, pedal and lever. The pedals are at the bottom and the levers are at the top. They control whether the string is sharp or flat. The harp I'm showing you is a pedal harp that her teacher plays professionally. It's so lovely that I photographed it to show you.

This is the crown at the top of the pillar.

This is some beautiful scroll styled painting at the base

of the soundboard.

Every inch of this instrument is beautiful.

This is the neck that holds the tuning pins and  the 

bridge pins.

Another view. The red strings are all C's and  the 

blue strings are all F's, so it's like a colorful road map.

     It wouldn't have occurred to me to link this post to anything, but after reading my comments from this post today I had a thought. This post is fresh because it gives people an experience that many might not ever have. It allows folks to see the close-up beauty of a harp. Prior to my daughter playing, I had only seen one of these beautiful harps at a symphony concert, and at the distance from where I was seated, I had no idea how ornate these lovely instruments are.