Camac Mademoiselle

About the Camac Mademoiselle

Camac markets the Mademoiselle explicitly as sharing every playing characteristic of its Concert Grand pedal harps - same string lengths, same spacing, same tension, same touch and body position - with the only difference being Camac's own lever mechanism substituting for pedals. That makes it functionally a training and gigging instrument for pedal harpists rather than a separate folk-harp design philosophy, unlike lever harps built around a lighter, easier touch.

It carries 40 strings across the E00-A36 range: nylon strings for the gut-strung register (E00-F3), true gut strings from E4-D26, and Galli lever wires from C27-A36 - a deliberately mixed stringing scheme matching what a Camac pedal harp itself uses rather than an all-nylon simplification. The body is maple and beech with a spruce soundboard, at 159cm tall and 22kg, available in natural maple, cherry, walnut, mahogany or black finishes.

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Sound character of the Camac Mademoiselle

Because the Mademoiselle is deliberately built to the exact string length, spacing and tension of Camac's concert grand pedal harps, it carries a fuller, more resonant tone than typical lever harps its size - the tradeoff for feeling and sounding like a pedal harp is the absence of the pedals' quick chromatic switching.

Technical data for the Camac Mademoiselle

The history of the Camac Mademoiselle

Camac, a French harp maker founded in 1972 and now one of the largest pedal and lever harp manufacturers in Europe, built the Mademoiselle specifically for players who want lever-harp portability without the technique gap that usually exists between lever and pedal harps.