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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $19.99
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 months
Manufacturer: First Act Inc.
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: First Act
EAN: 0607266403264
Feature: Easy to use-play songs within minutes
Label: First Act Inc.
Manufacturer: First Act Inc.
Model: MG901
Publisher: First Act Inc.
Studio: First Act Inc.
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Features
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Easy to use-play songs within minutes
Solid wood contruction for great sound
15 tunable strings
10 song cards with well-known melodies
Includes easy-to-follow tuning instructions
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Editorial Reviews:
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Strum a tuneful melody with this high quality lap harp. It features 15 strings and comes with 10 well known song cards. It's also tunable.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: First Act Lap Harp
Comment: My granddaughter loves this toy. She can play tunes on it. I wish there had been more music but I wrote some out for her.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just what we were looking for
Comment: We bought a lap harp for our home use when we were in Tennessee years ago. Our grandchildren love to use it when they are here so we wanted to get one as a birthday gift for a grandchild. They are not something that is available in local stores and the one we just bought through Amazon was equal quality to the one we had and at a lower price. It also has the additional features of a storage pocket machined into the top with a pivoting retainer to store the tuning key plus it has an oversized pick that is easy for the kids to hold and it makes it easy to store by sliding it between (over and under) 3 strings. As with any string instrument it will need tuning and the short ears of the tuning wrench may tempt some to move the post more than the slight tweak of a turn that is usually enough to bring it back into tune (provided that you have a piano or other instrument to use as a reference).
The one negative is the limited music supply. Combine that with the fact that the angles on the side bars that locate the music are not universal between brands which means that sheets from other brands are not usable. The only options are to make your own sheets and mark them for the songs you want or modify the outline of sheets made for another brand.
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Summary: Fun for grown-ups, too.
Comment: I ran across a lady who had one of these and could not tune it. I brought it home to tune for her. My husband picked it up, along with one of the song sheets and played a song. He has always liked the thought of playing music, but never been able to. He liked that one so much that we ordered one for him. I contacted First Act and requested that they look into providing more song sheets. It may or may not happen. So, I traced the shape of the song sheet onto a piece of paper. Then, I made light lines where the strings would cross. This I scanned into my computer and printed onto card stock. I have used these to work out several more songs for him to play. He likes my versions better than the originals.
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Summary: Easier to play than to tune!
Comment: This little lap harp does what it says it will do:
that is, let you play with ease the song cards provided.
Using the tuning key is a but trickier, but possible with practice.
It would not be too hard to create your own song cards
for other music once you see the format of the cards included.
Fun for a beginner!
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Summary: Good instrument for children
Comment: This instrument is a simple and fun one for any child to learn basic music theory and skills. However, this specific one only comes with the song sheets provided and does not offer any extra packets of song sheets so that the child isn't stuck learning the same twelve songs. I ordered it and tried to use song sheets for a similar lapharp from another company, but the sheet would not fit the frame of the instrument. I looked everywhere, from the First Act website to other Amazon products, but couldn't find any song sheet packets that would work with this lap harp.
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