I'll take one with lights. The kids' concerts can only get better. And I think a headband with two disco balls rotating on springs-- like antennae-- would be an enhancement as well. And I want the special refractive finish too that displays whatever I am thinking about as I play-- so people can see the hymns coming and duck if they like-- or so they can enjoy the bawdy tunes all the more.

Spaw if you could work up drawings this might aid your recovery process; aren't you going to have some down time soon? *G* Design a good big case now, too, with screw-in legs so I can play it tabletop, tilted. Don't forget the amp needs to be part of the case too-- cowabunga!

OK. Most times, before we got the present system, I was picking up the vocal and the harp together on a Shure SM57. Now I've gone to the pickup and the Shure SM58 for the vocals, going into a nice Crate acoustic-type amp. But dang, you know if I don't aim that mic carefully I get the harp on the SM58 as well as through the pickup. Maybe THAT's why the parishioners are sitting farther toward the back than they used to.... kidding.

Actually the sound is pretty awesone with the pickup and mic adding to the sound this nice harp makes in our amazing acoustics all by itself. The tilt of the table sends the sound up and back over my head, to bounce off the huge, box-shaped, vaulted choir and altar area-- it really does fill the whole church, like incense, with the rest of the sound bouncing off the stone walls off to the sides and way back through the deep seating area to the entrance doors.

I wish some of you harpers would drop by and play from that spot zo I could sit out front and listen-- I never get to hear what the people do.

~S~