... Welcome- If your hands aren't strong, you've come to the right place. I have rheumatoid arthritis and had joints replaced in my right hand. I also wear a...
I imagine the older harps had/have gut strings, I played on the wurlitzer with gut strings except for the lower base strings. The nylon strings on my dusty are...
Older harps (like newer harps) will have whatever kind of strings you put on them :-) My 1830ish Grecian double action has nylon strings (w/ some Nylgut)...
Hi there, ideally, just wire of floss... it has a flexibility that the boards require, and the weight to core ratio means that there is a low level of internal...
Can you define 'wire of floss"? Do you mean the wire-wrapped silk (and is that still available)? Or the wire-wrapped multifilament nylon? Dwyn Sent via...
Hi there, I only know of one supplier of wire on silk, and thats a 'made to spec' setup, takes months and costs a fortune. The floss stuff is unspun...
www.*aquilacorde*.com in Italy makes wire strings for classical harps . They send all over the world yours, maria ... -- Via Villa 2 20057 Vedano al Lambro...
www.*aquilacorde*.com in Italy makes wire strings for classical harps . They send all over the world yours, maria Cleary Via Villa 2 20057 Vedano al Lambro...
In the US Vermont Strings makes excellent fiber-core bass strings. They have the specifications that I derived from and 1808 Erard that came in with its...
Howard and Mike: When did harpmakers start putting steel core strings on harps? And why? As far as I can gather, there's no advantage to them and multiple...
Someone once mentioned somewhere (or did I imagine it) silk strings on antique harps.? I think maybe it was on a non-Erard mechanism..... Were any early pedal...
Hi there, there is a concert playbill of Parish_Alvares which mentions 'The newly invented metalic basses' which may or may not mean wire on wire strings. They...
Evangeline: If you're stringing an antique just for cosmetics, you can use any strings you have handy, and just not bring them up to pitch. For financial...
Hi there Baud submitted silk strings for an assortment of instruments, including harp, tothe French Academy... they are still there and seem to consist of silk...
http://www.harpcolumn.com/classifieds/view-one?ad%5fid=767143 In case anyone is searching for an Erard, someone is selling an Erard that was restored by Howard...
When I bought an older home, my parents told me, no matter what you do in the way of improvement, it is still an "old house"....and I found that out to be...
While I have proved myself to be a neophite in the area of antique harps by suggesting they might be used as a decorative item, I do know something about house...
Steve Fritzman of Lyon & Healy said, in an interview in /Harp Column/ magazine several years ago, that the best harps that L&H ever made were those dating from...
It depends on what you're looking for in a harp. If you want a pedal harp for gigging, then a new one, or slightly used perhaps. Just like car shopping,...
Both my houses are over 100 years old and I really wouldn't want anything newer. As for harps, the new ones are generally a lot heavier and sturdier than the...
Does anybody have a way to determine mass and tensile strength values for fiber core strings? An accurate method for allowing for the space between the fibers?...
ah, but the strands of fiber are stretched and then spun as a paralle group whilst the wire is bound under a light tension (about 70% of its breaking strain)....
Craig: See "Arto's New String Calculator" (just google that phrase). He gives instructions for measuring and weighing string to determine it's mass, so that...
What I admire about old harps is the beautiful carvings and gilt work. I think that the number of people who have the skills to do this work must be less now....
My take on all of this is that its a sound thing... I don't really care what my harps look like, but I want to understand the how and why of of how a harp was...
Try gold. When I started restoring harps about 18 years ago I could buy enough gold to do a Style 23 harp for about $225. I just paid over $600 for a pack of...
