Mary Lattimore, of Los Angeles, plays the least mobile instrument in the world – the harp. Hers is six feet tall and heavy, a beautiful whale of a thing made of wood and strings. “Gigantic,” she says. Earlier this year she wanted to go to the other side of the world to make a record. But how to get a harp from California to Cornwall, UK?
It wasn’t possible. She avoids taking it even on big planes and this trip – to the secluded, windswept studio of Slowdive founder Neil Halsted – involved a light plane as well, from London to Newquay, a fishing, surfing and farming town on the Cornish coast.
