I did my best to try to create a mizrab unsucessfully (why did it look so easy on youtube?) - and finally decided that I could achieve the same result with...
-Janet, It sounds like you solved the problem with your own creative solution. I don't think I would have the patience. Congratulations, and I hope your nail...
Happy New Year all - but I'm mainly just sending this 'cos while I'm receiving mail on this group, and my status apparently isn't bounced, for some reason my...
Hi Richard, Apparently this one got through ok... so I thought I'd just say "hi" and happy-calender-change day. If it doesn't show up for you, maybe your...
Happy new year to you all. I have good, strong, reliable nails on both hands, with the exception of a bilateral case of bumpy, pitted thumbnails. My health...
Hi all, My new harp is finally finished, and we put the strings on it last night. Right now they're just barely under tension, and I must admit, I'm at a bit...
Hi Audrey, Congratulations! You've done a lot of work, just by getting the strings on the harp. Having spent this morning aiding one of my students who just...
Hi Audrey I always do it with the harp I build, by first tuning the entire harp up to one note below the final pitch. This way you can be sure to stretch the...
Here's an update. The beautiful harp built for me by Dan Speer has cracked. The tension was too great for the neck which is in ash. After the fact I learned...
Thanks so much for the help (and thanks to Glen as well). I've heard so much about the relative fragility of brass wire that I'm actually having to screw up...
... and ... I thought I was the only one stupid enough to do that. A couple of years ago I restrung a harp for someone and a few months later visited to check...
I think we've all done that one, or nearly. I'm usually very careful about it, but once I was tuning the high F on my Ravenna and couldn't figure out why it...
Got your pitch pipe handy? Good. 1.First start with the bottom string and bring it up to one note short of what it should be. In other's words, B. Now go up...
If it will take the pressure, it will take the pressure. If it won't, then the sooner you break it, the sooner you can fix it. If you really want to be...
Craig Robert Pierpont wrote: <<If it will take the pressure, it will take the pressure>> Craig, I know you're right. In my brain, I know this is true. It's my ...
I would think (and I may be wrong...physics was never my strong suit) that something is going to have to stretch or flex under that kind of pressure, and,...
Hi, I have a friend who uses it on her nylon harp, which is slightly too big for her lap.? She loves it. If I understand it correctly, though, it only works if...
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>If I understand it correctly, though, it only works if there are sound holes in the back of the harp, which most wire harps don't have. Another factor is...
Ah yes...those would make a difference for many. I knew about the foot block, but had forgotten that many (most?) wire harps don't have back access holes....
Thanks greatly, Peter. - I wish I could always recall not only information, but where it came from too! By the way, thanks again Nan too. I did send a message...
... Ah, alas, wire strings DO stretch and that's plenty reason enough for the proffered caution in bringing them up to pitch. Generally the higher pitched the...
Thanks Nan, I'll look through it again to find the reference... but only when I've finished reading Amitav Ghosh's "Sea of Poppies" which my daughter gave me...
I hold my harps in place using the "stump" that James mentions. I put that post between my knees and hold it there. This way, the harps really can't slip away...
Hello all, I just got the go-ahead from Kathy DeAngelo to announce that there will be a "WireCon" track at the Somerset Folk Harp Festival in Alexandria, ...
Hello to all the harp players out there! It's time once again to update all the listings on the Celtic Harp Page! As always we're especially interested in harp...
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