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Kid’s Melody Harp Instrument This simple wooden harp is perfect for teaching beginners the joy of playing a musical instrument. “Follow-the-dot” songsheets slip underneath the strings and allow beginners to pick out tunes right away! Package includes harp, tuner, pick, replacement string and twelve sheets of music. All Ages
Customer Review: Great first instrument.
I got this harp for my daughter’s seventh birthday, and within minutes of opening the package, she was playing tunes. For a family not noted for musical aptitude, that was impressive. It must be the easiest instrument in the world to play. For the price, I think this is a well built piece. My only complaint is that tuning is quite difficult. The tiniest turn of the wrench sharps or flats the note rather drastically. That’s not necessarily a defect; just be aware that it’s an easy instrument to play, but challenging to tune correctly. Overall, a great way to get kids enthused about playing an instrument.
Customer Review: so easy and fun, but has to be completely re-tuned weekly
This product is fun and easy to use, and is the best way I can think of to start teaching a child to play an instrument. Unfortunately, it doesn’t hold a tune and has to be completely re-tuned every week, since sometimes the higher notes will get so bad they either match a lower note, or have a lower pitch than a string further down the harp! Honestly I have no idea how it can get so dramatically out of tune so quickly. And since I’m not particularly musical myself, it takes me 30-45 minutes each time (I’m sure a professional string player could do it in 30 seconds, but I’m not a professional string player!), so by the time it’s ready my daughter has long-since moved onto something else. We’ve used this maybe 4 times in the 6 months we’ve had it.