Thank you all for your kind words and advice~ After a strange sequence of events, I ended up with a full set of the greens. And the switch from steel to nylon is incredibly stressful They feel slippery, both in tuning and touch, but they *are* easier to use. My guitar friends are insisting the tunin...

Hmm. Maybe I'll buy the greens for the first accompaniment set and go from there. (They do seem to be popular!) I have a few synthetic strings on it someone replaced and they... are not right. So I've been a bit weary. But maybe I'll do that. Thank you~

So I always told myself when I sold a car, I would buy strings. Well, I did it, I was ready to contact Optima, get me some of those delicious Bergfee strings, and, uhh, almost all my strings are steel. Is this normal? (Are the bergfee red line strings steel?) I admittedly only NEED two strings, but ...

....I apparently only replied to this in my head. Hopefully, I will find myself in the area and will look. I'm not TOO concerned at the moment, but I kinda would like to get a professional opinion. You're also the closest I've seen. I was at a harpsichord concert here last night, and I was introduce...

Strangely, I was antique shopping, in Texas, and couldn't resist it's brother. Mine was missing a several strings, but I did buy mine from harpkit.com, very affordable for basic plain strings, just bought the sizes I thought I needed. Tuned up great. I... I personally prefer it more for looks, but I...

Thank you all~ I do very much hope to keep at it. I am honestly at the moment trying to get my treble clef reading skills better, I've been avoiding it my entire life, but I suppose I must now. I am trying to make digital copies of some older music I don't want to touch too much in my efforts to lea...

I am a fairly new zither player (zitherist? I hope that's not right, can't even say it. Zitherist.) but I do hope that this is the instrument I'll keep at. I grew up as a viola player with violin and cello on the side, went to school for viola, paid for a considerable amount of university through vi...