Rees Sharpsicle

About the Rees Sharpsicle

Unlike the fully chromatic Fullsicle, the Sharpsicle equips only its most musically useful strings with sharping levers, a deliberate cost and complexity trade-off aimed at players who mostly need diatonic major-scale playing with occasional access to common sharps rather than complete chromatic freedom. This makes it a genuinely simpler instrument to learn on while still offering meaningfully more flexibility than a purely diatonic harp with no levers at all.

As part of Rees's handmade USA lap harp family, the Sharpsicle shares its compact, lap-resting size and build quality with its Fullsicle and Flatsicle siblings, differing mainly in lever placement and default tuning - letting a buyer choose the exact balance of simplicity versus chromatic range that fits their playing goals.

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Sound character of the Rees Sharpsicle

Built on the same compact 26-string body as Rees' other lap harps, the Sharpsicle shares their inherently bright, light timbre rather than the fuller resonance of a full-size harp. Its fixed diatonic C-major tuning (with levers only for the most common accidentals) means every combination of strings stays harmonically consonant, giving it a simpler, more settled character than a fully chromatic instrument.

Technical data for the Rees Sharpsicle

Price history for the Rees Sharpsicle

Cheapest seen: 773 EUR  ·  Most expensive seen: 773 EUR

The history of the Rees Sharpsicle

Rees Harps built the Sharpsicle as a partially levered, C-major-tuned option within its compact lap harp line, balancing simplicity against chromatic flexibility.