We're back! and with extra goodies

And we're back from an unnecessary hiatus. There's not much else I can tell you guys. I myself am stuck in the middle with moving forward with my own harp biz. But there's some I can still tell you, so get comfy. So I told you eons ago about playing for other people and the business involved. Did I mention I was going to introduce things other than the stool and the harp that you can have? Well, there is! In the Fringe I had to have an amp, because there's a lot going on and if I didn't have that nobody would hear me. I started out small. The kind of amp I had (and still have) is a Traynor TVM10 amp. 

There it is. Now I only know this because I kept the owner's manual for the thing. Otherwise I wouldn't have remembered the name for it~ (hooray, I win at life!) For the other things I have I usually have to research them, but at least you guys won't have to do it if I do, right? Right. You can find out more about the amp if you like on this link: http://traynoramps.com/guitar/tvm/product/tvm10/ 

Now what's nice about this amp is that it's battery powered. So if you get the right chord you can charge it up before you leave home, and as long as you remember to turn it off when you're not using it, it can last for a pretty darn long time. Now I haven't stretched it's power to the limit but it lasts at least two hours, at least. When you plug it in there's an LED light that turns on, and if it's red, yep, it needs charging. If it's fully charged supposedly it'll turn yellow. The amp has RCA auxiliary input jacks, which can connect to some sound sources. So like CD players, tape decks, MP3 players or even laptops if you have the right equipment, like audio adapters (ugh, my head. I am not a technician!). It has a volume dial (guess that's a given) and it has input 1, input 2, bass, low mid, hi mid, treble...you know what? I'm sure you guys will be fine with figuring it out if you purchase it, and keep the manual. It's a pretty handy dandy little machine. It comes with the charger chord and a chord to plug into your harp, and cost, for me, 190.00$. Now if you were serious about making it easier on yourself, which I clearly am not as you will soon see, you can have it that a plug in is drilled into the soundboard of your harp, and your harp can literally be plugged in, and the sound would come directly from there. Now I don't have a lot of money myself, so I do not yet have a hole in my harp. What I do have is this: 

The Fishman SBT-HP pickup. This cost 109.00$. Now this is nice, because it has the circular holder that sticks onto the harp and you can slip the jack in it. Unfortunately I don't have that holder anymore because it is permanently stuck on my teeny weeny harp that I"m not using anymore, and no amount of household remedies can get it off. So if you decide to get this, make sure you know exactly where you want that sticky, and if you want it on there forever. Unless there's a way to get if off that I have not discovered yet. The black end has to stick on the soundboard to get the sound into the amp..and how do I make that happen? Green tape. I seriously tape the black end onto the inside of my harp and that's how I get my sound. The jack sits on the ground next to my feet. If you would rather not go down this road that I have, you can go to a site like Sylvia Woods Harp Center and they show you pickups you can buy for your harp. Or you could go to Harp.com, because they have a lot of stuff to look at, and not just pickups. There's a lot to sift through on that site. And I know there's another site that I know that I looked through to find my stuff, but I can't find it at the moment. But when I remember I'll post it on here. That's all I have for you guys right now.