🎉🥂💐 Congratulations on your no mistakes video. Thank you for opening my ears to so many things harp. Your videos are such a joy. Speaking of your hair, this current version is so cool!

I’m a Salvi girl but if I had to turn to the Lyon and Healy side of the force, I would pick the L&H 100 ❤️

I have a Camac and Lyon & Healy lever harp. Impossible to favor one over the other. Camac always has a very crisp and clean sound while Lyon and Healy is bright and loud. I'm not sure how many Venus harps make it overseas but they are littered all over the USA in schools and people's homes. Everyone seems to have a different opinion on them. A local harp professor had a line of them at the university and they all were her fiercely protected babies. I personally love my own Venus pedal harp but my friend cannot stand to play it. She owns a Salvi that I dislike playing. Funny how everyone seems to disagree on harps.

Totally agree with your analysis

God I love you! Your joy and energy! Thanks for all of your videos!

Agreed. I own 8 harps--Lyon and Healy and Salvi and use them for different purposes.

thanks finally someone comparing well done

Learn a lot from you, thanks.

I agree, but in my case it's backwards. My big full stuff on my Camac Athena with an extended board, and my light, Baroque stuff on my Lyon & Healy Style 15.

They both sound lovely. I would find it difficult to choose between them

this--like all of your videos--is fabulous. and I'd love to see you shift between harps while playing with an orchestra!

Maybe because I am American I like the sound of the Lyon & Healy. Not because it is made in America but because the sound is more closely related to the sound of the American language. For me I didn't hear the clarity you say you hear with the Camac. The Camac sounded muffled with the various pitches overlapping much like the French language! I preferred the Mozart on the L&H it sounded cleaner to me. I like the idea of the harp being powerful! I want it to sound fierce or project well even in more legato pieces. I have to say though the Camac is a beauty, more so than the L&H!

Hello , congratulations for your very instructive and funny videos ! Can you tell please which new Salvi harp you tried that sounds very similar to a Lyon & Healy ?

Excellent point you brought up on matching the type/style of harp to the genre of repertoire to be played. It was most apparent when you played the piece by Mozart. The Camac definitely won hands down!

The opera Bésame mucho was beautiful.

You're wonderful, and funny, I like it! I need a harp for pop music, and I think the Camac might be the way to go, what is the difference between the Clio straight and the Mini blue in sound, what is your favourite, I have a huge concert Venus, but I need a restaurant harp that I can out a pick up in, and it would sound good, I work at a restaurant with my band so need light and easy. Any difference in the tension?

You are a wonderful harpist!

I can hear the differences. I agree with you. For the Hindemith concerto, could you have both harps setup next to each other and swap seats between the movements?

My opinion is they are both quality instruments, let the player decide, because it's how they hear it that's most important. Thinking that playing jazz, or Mozart, on the Camac, verse the Lyon & Healy, because you think it sounds better, is subjective, your taste. Playing them, being close to the instrument, right behind it, is a different experience than the listener has. I thought they both sounded great and your playing was full of enthusiasm! Everyone who I've spoken to says selecting a harp is a matter of personal choice.

There is a difference besides maker, the Camac is a straight sound board and the L&H has an extended soundboard. Would the Camac Atlantide Prestige be similar to the L&H 23? Or, would a L&H with a straight soundboard be similar to the Camac? Thanks ...

Oh wow!......you can never have enough harps....I say...buy them all...you are so funny....okay...I am not a huge of camac however, it has its place for me because of you! Thank you! 🙏 🎶 🙏...I think you are brilliant!....I like your idea to play two different harps to achieve the right sound in a piece...you are right...go for it! 💪✨💃

What do you think of the Salvi harps? I feel like the Arion has a well balanced sound that would be versatile♥️

can you say something about the different string spacing on the two harps? do you have any problem moving back and forth between them?

Sei fortissima!!!! Viva le Chiara arpiste simpatiche ! 👍

The big issue with harp are the low gut strings, they tend to sound very boomy and lack definition. This easily gets amplified on harps with extended soundboards. While I love old L&H instruments (1970 and older) I have the feeling modern harps of traditional style get heavier and less defined in terms of sound characteristics. The biggest difference within the L&H range so far was my first harp, lovely style 15 with straight soundboard. Delicate sound, well defined low register. But could not compete im terms of power of course, so my next instrument was a L&H 23, 1990s. That one suffered from the straight soundboard issue mentioned before and also didn't have that very special "L&H sound" from the golden era (back in the 1960s and earlier). My next step was a Camac Big Blue 47 which basically is an Atlantide with pickups. The thing is - the thicker middle stripe of the soundboard (as it has to carry the pickups) seems to clean up the sound quite a bit which results in a bright, incredibly well projecting sound. As of now I hardly ever play the instrument amplified bit enjoy its acoustic quality. The only drawback: as the tone colour is very bright it is some work until you can control the upper register. Not an instrument for a beginner I'd say but a valuable high end tool offering direct/fast response.

I agree!

What pieces would you prefer to play on the Lyon and Healy 23?

what about comparing camac and L&H electric portable harps? do you own one of these?

Which would you choose for Tournier?

Gosh, how I cracked during the besame mucho part!

Does the fact that the L&H has an extended soundboard and the Camac has a straight soundboard make any significant difference?

As a complete blind harp lover, I’d like to know, wich is this and which is that harp you play in the video? Thanks a lot for it!

which is better for Bach? and for Debussey?

Which of these 2 harps is best to play pop music on?

Totally agree! But I think you need a third harp…. Salvi 😉

Do you think I as a person with no light perception can learn playing the harp by touching and hearing? Thanks a lot.😊

Camac is the best sound, But lyon 23looks so elegant 😍

I think its a diffiult comparision, because they don't have the same soundboard size and all that but you still did a good comparision!!! :) I always prefer camac

Very informative and clearly presented. E sei anche super simpatica! Tra l'altro avevo anch'io un' Athena a tavola stretta. Andrò a spulciare il tuo canale per vedere se hai un video simile sull'arpa celtica. Mi trovo da qualche mese in possesso di una Camac Bardic 27. Cheers!

May be you should make your comparaison between 2 same level harps, not a 1st price study harp with straight sounboard... 🤔 If you play and compare with a professionnal Camac harp it could be a real sound test 😘

What you say might agree with your own technic wich is definitely very special : it is not true for another harpist with the french harp School technic who would play whith more articulation and more flexibility especially at the left hand.

Another amazing, clever, educational and absolutely hilarious video! :D "much more majestic, much more strong, much more soviet!"

Hi. You know david harp?

L&H blows away the Camac anytime!

Steinway!!!!!

why not use two harps to play one piece? I like that idea...

Camac harps are synthetic and sound like it. They cannot respond like a true musical instrument. They are not worth the cheaper price and they also tend toward being ugly. They also don't follow standards of string spacing and other aspects of a harp.