Almost bought one of these off the Harpery last week! It’s such a stunning harp. I love the carpathian style drymbas. I ended up getting a black fire doromb instead which came in today
Nice! I’m also really drawn to the Carpathian style drymbas too. 2 small Vandjuracks, 2 small Lebbetts, 1 big Lebbett, and now this Ovcharenko. What do you think of the Black Fire? Did you get a tuned one?
@@BoxcarBetts the black fire is incredible! It’s a really smooth player and very responsive to muting techniques. I got it tuned to D2, I’m really focusing on tuned harps right now because I’ve been playing with other musicians a lot. How does this harp compare to those other drymba?
Niiiiice. Mine is in F2 and I have the same comments. Plus I also find it very melodic and I can get good draws from it if I’m already going a bit or by gently pushing the reed ahead at the crimp (manual draw, we have been calling that technique). My low Lebbett plays equally as smooth as the black fire, but this Molfar is more similar to my high Lebbett. It’s a better inward player, but still sounds cool with decent muting outwards. Highly recommend as an addition to your collection and there was still a few different note choices when I bought mine.
The general English terms would be jaw harp, mouth harp, or Jew’s harp, but in Ukraine they are known as a “drymba.” Ovcharenko is the name of the maker and “Molfar” is what he called the harp.
I have a russian one, from the Krasnojarsk area, and i am also happy about them.
I need to expand my collection from Russia. I have one vargan by Glazyrin and that’s it.’
Almost bought one of these off the Harpery last week! It’s such a stunning harp. I love the carpathian style drymbas. I ended up getting a black fire doromb instead which came in today
Nice! I’m also really drawn to the Carpathian style drymbas too. 2 small Vandjuracks, 2 small Lebbetts, 1 big Lebbett, and now this Ovcharenko.
What do you think of the Black Fire? Did you get a tuned one?
@@BoxcarBetts the black fire is incredible! It’s a really smooth player and very responsive to muting techniques. I got it tuned to D2, I’m really focusing on tuned harps right now because I’ve been playing with other musicians a lot. How does this harp compare to those other drymba?
Niiiiice. Mine is in F2 and I have the same comments. Plus I also find it very melodic and I can get good draws from it if I’m already going a bit or by gently pushing the reed ahead at the crimp (manual draw, we have been calling that technique). My low Lebbett plays equally as smooth as the black fire, but this Molfar is more similar to my high Lebbett. It’s a better inward player, but still sounds cool with decent muting outwards. Highly recommend as an addition to your collection and there was still a few different note choices when I bought mine.
How can I buy it?
Here! Note that $11.11 is for the case. The harp itself was about $50.
www.theharpery.com/drymba/323byofnzhv1r5z4nucte0ns5org5b
@@BoxcarBetts thank you 🙏
What is it?
The general English terms would be jaw harp, mouth harp, or Jew’s harp, but in Ukraine they are known as a “drymba.” Ovcharenko is the name of the maker and “Molfar” is what he called the harp.