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Camac Harps is a renowned French harp manufacturer with a rich history dating back to 1967. The story began when its founder - Jakez François, a passionate harpist, recognized the need for improved harp technology. He set out to create instruments that would not only meet the demands of professional musicians but also inspire the next generation of harpists. Over the years, Camac has continuously pushed the boundaries of harp design, introducing groundbreaking features and technologies that have revolutionized the way the harp is played and experienced.

Today, Camac Harps offers a wide range of instruments, from the stunning Art Nouveau Gold concert grand harp to the versatile Odyssey electric harp. Each Camac harp is meticulously crafted using the finest materials and the latest manufacturing techniques, ensuring a level of quality and performance that is unparalleled in the industry.

Beyond their innovative instruments, Camac is also recognized for their dedication to the harp community. The company actively supports harp education, collaborates with renowned musicians, and participates in international harp festivals and events, solidifying their position as a true icon in the world of harp music.

Concert Grand Harps

Virtuoso expertise in the service of music: these exceptional instruments are at the heart of Camac Maison’s creations. 24-carat water gilding, exquisite inlays, the noblest woods and an incomparable sound are all entirely dedicated to artistic perfection. Camac Concert Grand harps are the choice of the finest soloists and orchestras, from the Vienna to the Berlin Philharmonic, the Opéra de Paris and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Jubilé
  • Height: 190 cm
  • Weight: 40 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, 00G to 7C · G00 – C45
  • Woods:
    maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: black lacquer. Special finishes to order.
Art Nouveau Gold
  • Height: 188 cm
  • Weight: 39 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, G00 (above 1st octave) – C45 (7th octave);
  • Woods: Maple / Acer pseudoplatanus (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes: 24-carat water gilding
Ebony Canopée
  • Height: 188 cm
  • Weight: 41 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, G00 (above 1st octave) – C45 (7th octave)
  • Woods: inlaid Amara Macassar ebony / Diospyros celebica (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Materials: inlays: sycamore and walnut. Detailing in white mother-of-pearl
  • Finishes: ebony
Oriane 47 Gold
  • Height: 191 cm
  • Weight: 40 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, 00G to 7C · G00 – C45
  • Woods:
    maple (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes: natural maple, 24-carat water gilding. Specialty finishes to order
Élysée
  • Height: 191 cm
  • Weight: 41 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, G00 (above 1st octave) – C45 (7th octave)
  • Woods: Sipo mahogany (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes: mahogany with gilded bronze accents
Trianon 47
  • Height: 191 cm
  • Weight: 38 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, G00 (above 1st octave) – C45 (7th octave)
  • Woods: maple, spruce for the soundboard;and beech for neck and base
  • Finishes: natural maple. Speciality finishes to order

 

 

Trianon 44
  • Height: 175 cm
  • Weight: 33 kg
  • Range: 44 strings, 00G to 6F · G00 – F42
  • Woods:
    maple (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes: natural maple. Specialty finishes to order
Art Nouveau
  • Height: 188 cm
  • Weight: 39 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, 00G to 7C · G00 – C45
  • Woods:
    Maple / Acer pseudoplatanus (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Materials: inlay strips in American walnut / Juglans nigra
  • Finishes: natural cherry wood. Soundboard decorations optional

Professional Concert Harps

The purest expression of elegance: Camac professional harps give free rein to the joy of virtuosity and interpretation. Their acoustic qualities, depth of timbre and profound sonority are the synthesis of fifteen years of research: to perfect the “French sound” of their harps, and to make them accessible to the greatest number of people today.

Atlantide Prestige
  • Height: 188 cm;
  • Weight: 38 kg;
  • Range: strings, G00 (above 1st octave)- C45 (7th octave);
  • Woods: maple, spruce for the soundboard and beech for neck and base;
  • Finishes: natural maple, mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, black. Soundboard decoration optional. Speciality finishes to order
Vendôme
  • Height: 188 cm;
  • Weight: 36 kg;
  • Range: 47 strings, G00 (above 1st octave) – C45 (7th octave);
  • Woods: cherry wood, spruce for the soundboard and beech for neck and base;
  • Finishes: natural cherry wood. Soundboard decorations optional

 

Égérie Extended
  • Height: 188 cm
  • Weight: 37.5 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, 00G to 7C / G00 – C45
  • Woods: maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black. Soundboard decoration optional. Specialty finishes to order.
Égérie Straight
  • Height: 188 cm
  • Weight: 36 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, 00G to 7C / G00 – C45
  • Woods: maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black.
  • Soundboard decoration optional. Speciality finishes to order.

Student Pedal Harps

Camac student pedal harps are conceived to ensure the most natural transition to a professional concert harp. With the same top-quality mechanism, spacing, tension and pedal box, and Camac’s ten-year guarantee, they are synonymous with lightness, beautiful sound quality, and easy maintenance.

Schola
  • Height: 181 cm
  • Weight: 33 kg
  • Range: 46 strings, 00G to 7D · G00 – D44
  • Woods:
    maple (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes: mahogany
Clio Extended
  • Height: 172 cm
  • Weight: 32 kg
  • Range: 44 strings, 00G to 6F · G00 – F42
  • Woods:
    maple (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black.
  • Soundboard decorations optional. Specialty finishes to order
Clio Straight
  • Height: 172 cm
  • Weight: 30 kg
  • Range: 44 strings, 00G to 6F · G00 – F42
  • Woods:
    maple (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes:
    mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black. Speciality finishes to order

Electric Pedal Harps

Camac Blue Harps with soundboxes are three instruments in one: traditional acoustic harps, amplified electric harps, and electroacoustic harps. They free musical interpretation from all constraints, opening infinite realms of expression to harpists.

Electroacoustic Jubilé
  • Height: 190 cm
  • Weight: 40 kg
  • Range: 47 strings, 00G to 7C · G00 – C45
  • Woods:
    maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: black lacquer. Special finishes to order.
The Big Blue 47
  • Electric and Acoustic Harp;
  • Height: 188 cm;
  • Weight: 38 kg;
  • Range: 47 strings, G00 – C45;
  • Woods: maple, spruce for the soundboard and beech for neck and base;
  • Finishes: blue, mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black. Soundboard decorations optional. Speciality finishes to order
The Blue 47
  • Electric and Acoustic Harp;
  • Height: 185 cm;
  • Weight: 35 kg;
  • Range: 47 cordes, G00 (above first octave) – C45 (7th octave);
  • Woods: maple, spruce for the soundboard and beech for neck and base;
  • Finishes: blue, mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black. Speciality finishes to order.
The Little Big Blue
  • Height: 172 cm
  • Weight: 32 kg
  • Range: 44 strings, 00G to 6F · G00 – F42
  • Woods:
    maple (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes: blue, mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black.
  • Soundboard decorations optional. Specialty finishes to order
Mini Blue 44
  • Height: 172 cm
  • Weight: 30 kg
  • Range: 44 strings, 00G to 6F · G00 – F42
  • Woods:
    maple (body), spruce (soundboard), beech (neck and base)
  • Finishes: blue, mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black. Specialty finishes to order

 

Professional Lever Harp

Far from being considered a “small” or study instrument, the lever harp is an instrument in its own right, with a wealth of rich traditions and dynamic contemporary directions. Each Camac concert lever harp is designed together with an internationally-recognised lever harp soloist.

Mademoiselle
  • Height: 159 cm;
  • Weight: 22 kg;
  • Range: 40 strings, E00 – A36;
  • Stringing: nylon for gut-strung harp (E00 – F3) standard gut (E4 – D26); Galli lever wires (C27 – A36);
  • Woods: maple and beech for the body spruce for the soundboard;
  • Finishes: natural maple, cherry wood, walnut, mahogany, black. Soundboard decorations to order
Ulysse
  • Height: 130 cm
  • Weight: 8.5 kg
  • Range: 34 strings, 1A to 6C · A1 – C34
  • Stringing:
    Alliance fluorocarbon (A1 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Materials: Carbon fibre (body), spruce (soundboard), titanium (tuning pegs)
  • Finishes: black, blue, red, green, white. Specialty finishes, soundboard decorations and custom levers to order.
  • Integrated Ischell Box® pickup system and pre-amp
Aziliz
  • Height: 118 cm (low feet), 127 cm (Aziliz legs)
  • Weight: 11 kg
  • Range: 34 strings, 1A to 6C · A1 – C34
  • Stringing:
    Alliance fluorocarbon (A1 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Woods: maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes:
    mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black, princess. Soundboard decorations to order. Low feet / special half-height Aziliz legs (option)
Janet
  • Height: 130 cm
  • Weight: 11 kg
  • Range: 34 strings, 1A to 6C · A1 – C34
  • Stringing:
    Camac Celtic nylon (A1 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Woods: walnut (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: natural walnut. Soundboard decorations, natural maple finish to order
Concert Melusine
  • Height: 137 cm
  • Weight: 14 kg
  • Range: 38 strings, 1C to 6A · C00 – A36
  • Stringing:
    Camac Celtic nylon (C00 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Woods: maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black. Soundboard decorations to order.
Excalibur
  • Height: 148 cm
  • Weight: 15 kg
  • Range: 38 strings, 1C to 6A · C00 – A36
    Stringing:
    Kürschner fluorocarbon Excalibur gauge (C00 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Woods: maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple, black. Soundboard decorations to order

Student Lever Harps

Camac’s passion for the lever harp extends throughout its range. They offer small harps with every combination of size, string material and tension, for the perfect solution for every student and teacher. All Camac harps are equipped with the renowned Camac levers, widely-recognised as among the best in the world.

Celtic Isolde
  • Height: 141 cm
  • Weight: 14 kg
  • Range: 38 strings, 1C to 6A · C00 – A36
  • Stringing:
    Alliance fluorocarbon (C00 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Woods: maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, walnut. With supplement: natural maple. Soundboard decorations to order
Mélusine
  • Height: 137 cm;
  • Weight: 14.5 kg;
  • Range: 38 strings, C00 – A36; Stringing: Camac Celtic nylon (C00 – D26), Calli lever wires (C27 – A36);
  • Woods: maple and beech for the body, spruce for the soundboard;
  • Finishes: cherry wood, walnut, mahogany. With supplement: natural maple. Soundboard decorations to order. Low feet / high legs (option)
Classical Isolde
  • Height: 141 cm
  • Weight: 14 kg
  • Range: 38 strings, 1C to 6A · C00 – A36
  • Stringing:
    Kürschner fluorocarbon Isolde gauge (C00 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Woods: maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, walnut. With supplement: natural maple. Soundboard decorations to order
Hermine
  • Height: 122 cm;
  • Weight: 11.5 kg;
  • Range: 34 strings, A1 – C34;
  • Stringing: Alliance fluorocarbon (A1 – D26) Galli lever wires (C27 – C34)
  • Woods: maple and beech for the body, spruce for the soundboard;
  • Finishes:  cherry wood, walnut, mahogany, With supplement: natural maple. Soundboard decorations to order. Low feet / high legs (option)

 

 

Telenn
  • Height: 133 cm (low feet), 148 cm (high legs)
  • Weight: 12 kg
  • Range: 34 strings, 1A to 6C · A1 – C34
  • Stringing:
    nylon for gut-strung harp (A1 – F3), Camac light gut (E4 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Woods:
    maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes:
    mahogany, cherry wood, walnut. With supplement: natural maple. Soundboard decorations to order. Low feet / high legs (option)
Lancelot
  • Height: 142 cm (low feet) or 154 cm (high legs)
  • Weight: 15 kg
  • Range: 1C to 6A / C00 – A3
  • Stringing: C 00 to F 3 nylon for gut-strung harp, E 4 to A 29: Camac Classique gut, G 30 to A 36: Galli “Heavy” wire strings for Celtic harp.
  • Woods: Maple and beech (body), spruce (soundboard)
  • Finishes: Mahogany, cherry wood, walnut, natural maple. Soundboard decorations to order

Electric Lever Harps

The portable “DHC” electric harp, considered the benchmark in its field, was developed with the legendary American jazz harpist Deborah Henson-Conant. Ultralight, beautiful and fascinating to audiences, the DHC is the ultimate instrument for all musical genres, from Celtic to rock!

DHC 32
  • Height: 120 cm
  • Weight: 5.5 kg
  • Range: 32 strings, 1F to 6C · F3 – C34
  • Stringing:
    Alliance fluorocarbon (F3 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Materials: Carbon fibre
  • Finishes: black, blue, red, green, white. Specialty finishes / ‘True Fire’ finish to order. Tripod, harness to order
DHC 36
  • Height: 144 cm
  • Weight: 7.5 kg
  • Range: 36 strings, 1A to 6A · A1 – A36
  • Stringing:
    Camac Celtic nylon (A1 – D26), Galli lever wires
  • Materials: Carbon fibre Finishes: black, blue, red, green, white. Specialty finishes / ‘True Fire’ finish to order (blue, red). Tripod, harness to order

Odyssey Harp

Odyssey by Camac is a small harp with big ideas. It’s compact, light, and looks and sounds gorgeous. It’s an ideal travel harp, a great choice for beginners, and the gateway to a community united by their love of the harp.

Odyssey 27
  • Height: 99 cm;
  • Weight: 5.9 kg;
  • Range: 27 strings, A1 – C27;
  • Stringing: Camac Celtic nylon;
  • Woods: maple and beech for body, spruce for soundboard;
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, natural maple, black, blue, red, green, pink
Odyssey 27
  • Height: 99 cm;
  • Weight: 5.9 kg;
  • Range: 27 strings, A1 – C27;
  • Stringing: Camac Celtic nylon;
  • Woods: maple and beech for body, spruce for soundboard;
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, natural maple, black, blue, red, green, pink
Odyssey 27
  • Height: 99 cm;
  • Weight: 5.9 kg;
  • Range: 27 strings, A1 – C27;
  • Stringing: Camac Celtic nylon;
  • Woods: maple and beech for body, spruce for soundboard;
  • Finishes: mahogany, cherry wood, natural maple, black, blue, red, green, pink