Mélusine Camac Harp Review 

Do you own a Mélusine? What do you think?

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I decided on the Camac de Melusine without even playing it. (I started on a Rees Special Edition Harpsicle). I did my research and noticed that the Melusine sounded good whether in the hands of a beginner or professional and I loved the sound. I am very happy with deciding on the Melusine, and my harp teacher is impressed with the sound, and she is a Salvi/Dusty Strings afficionado!

I like to have a second breakfast too....adorable! ❤ Excellent review. Thank you! ❤

My second breakfast!!! I love it! Looks delicious

I’m having a hard time choosing between a Camac Hermine or Lyon and Healy Drake Your input on this would be most valuable you are exceptional!!! Thank you

nice review, where I live hard to find harps to try in person ... so I am probably going to be buying without trying ... plan to mostly play folk music, some options considering is this Melusine Harp and the other is Dusty Strings FH36...Although Dusty Strings is quite a bit more expensive ... from listening to online videos I think I prefer the Dusty Strings sound, but then hard to compare without being in person :)

Hey !!! I have the same C ruined on my Isolde !!! I didn´t know it was a recurrent problem on the camacs !

I notice the same problem with the F wires on Lyon & Healy lever harps. A harp technician once told me that the coloring used on bowbrand strings cause them to be more "slippery" on the C and F strings. Pedal harps especially have a hard time gripping those strings and can make a buzzy/snappy sound when you pluck them in an outwards motion even after a regulation. I wonder if that has any correlation to the issue?

You do not find the C that is "ruined" on all Camac harps problematic? (by ruined do you mean you have to replace the string often because it is broken alot?) I am not a professional, but I like to play and I would like to invest in a harp with more strings than 26! I currently play a Rees lap harp (fullsicle? I can't remember - it has all the levers) - and I play just for the joy of playing. You play fantastic! Wow! How many hours a day do you practice? Just beautiful! Thank you for your video! It was interesting, Informative and fun! ❤️

Thank you so much. Would you consider reviewing the Dusty Strings Seranna 34?😊

Chiara, could you please conduct a review of the Camac Madamoislle, please?

Pls tell the price and thanks for the information mam

I love my Melusine!!!

Hello! Do you prefer this one or your Dusty String FH36 overall? 😄

My Broceliande Camac harp (which was produced in similar style, but before the Melusine was produced, so you could view it as an "older version"?) also has the "sliding" tone with the levers for some strings. In ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q9YwcMt7TOo.html I'm showing my harp and around 1:15 minutes you can hear/see the sliding sound (most clearly in some metal strings, though also very lightly in some nylon strings). Same as the Melusine, it's very light to play. For amplification, I didn't have any problems with the higher notes, but I did get some help from someone who's more familiar with amplifying instruments. As for the middle C string, when I bought my harp (already 26 years ago, the harp is now 40 years old), it had a nylon C-string. After replacing it a few times with a nylon C, I suddenly got a metal C-string. It didn't fray at the top for all those years, but in 2019 my harp went for revision to Camac and the metal strings (which had all been on the harp since the beginning, so early 1980s) were replaced with new ones. So that newer C-string was also replaced and it started fraying quite soon! Two weeks ago I visited Camac again (because the ringlets for many strings had cracks in them and had to be replaced) and I asked about the fraying metal C-string. They saw it was actually replaced with an older metal C-string (there's a difference in the part that's inside the soundboard) so they replaced it with a new one. But the more-older metal C-strings didn't have that problem, so I hope this newest one also won't have it.

The problematic C string made of metal wires are not only a problem of Camac harps. I have a Salvi harp and it is the same. I think it is because of the thin wires which you had to use for this C string. All other metal wires never have shown this problem. Could be that the color which is on the metal string makes it even worse.

What does ‘Mèlusine’ mean?