Cynthia pointed out to me a good website with a video on how to restring these harps through the soundholes and string holes. It was on clarsach.net. It...
Hello! I have a friend, who is, at the moment, making a QM - based harp. We're basing on RBA's "Irish and Highland harps" but we encountered a problem: the...
... You know, this doesn't really surprise me. I was playing my piano yesterday (no students on a Tuesday! A day off for the music teacher, so I spent two ...
... it struck me that young edward could barely take melodic dictation. >> You're welcome, and I thank both Chris and Peter for giving clear directions to get...
Davy, His trip to look at the Lamont was after I ordered one from his and before he started building it. At that time he said that all old harps had willow...
Hi Barbara, Sounds like fun, building a harp. Could you share where you got your plans? David Kortier is presently building a Brian Boru for me, but I would...
I think you're onto something there. Soundhole is a misnomer, at least on the wire harp. The walls and back of the soundbox resonate, but ungraduated wood ...
... I, myself, don't know anything about instrument making, I'm just a harpy ;) My harpmaker is a violin player, who makes historical "fidel" and violas. This...
How about some experiments? A number of us (and that's not counting professionals) currently seem to be making instruments so why not finish and string them...
If you are carving up a soundbox from a solid plank and do NOT use soundholes. how do you know how thick you are leaving the front? Robert Mouland WireHarp...
It indeed gets easier with practice, but I still envy my wife & daughter who play gut strung harps built with large holes in the back! Good wishes, Richard ......
Good point; I would probably use my drill press with its adjustable stop to index drill before carving (or just use a big Forstner bit for most of the roughing...
Hello, Could you give us that web address again please. I can't seem to find it. Go raibh maith agat Gorwel Cynthia Cathcart <clarsaich@...> wrote: ...
They would have to be some monstrously big calipers. If we are talking about historical instruments, the use of fancy tools is pretty unlikely. I have made...
Hi. I'm not a maker at all, but did follow up Cynthia's comment about Ardival using no glue with Bill Taylor, just for more info. They only use glue - and...
... Hmmm.... not really, I shouldn't think..... I'm thinking of the sort we used to use in sculpture classes when I was in art school, back in the '60s. ... ...
Hi ... replica with ... There is a pic of the back of the dalway harp near the start of Armstrongs Irish harps book, without the back ... held by ... Usually...
... Page 28. And it's the Castle Otway harp. Look at the Cor/Lamchrann (Curve/Column) joint shape and the ornamentation on the inside of the Lamchrann and...
... No Cynthia: You haven't mentioned it!!!!! Naughty Harper!!!!! ... I agree about it not being easy to access. So I copied the link and have added it to...
Shiela the problem lies in the structure you are trying to measure. If you have a large caliper that you set to measure the thickness of the soundboard front...
My QM made by Tim Hobrough has the backboard held in by friction which I believe is similar to the original. As for the inside, it's basically gauged out. He...
I can post the string chart for you later (It's at home), but it does vary depending on the type of stringing you use. Mine originally came strung with red...
... Thank You, I will have a string chart shortly, so I don't need it anymore. I'm gonna string my harp with brass and silver :) ... Hugs! Mascot-- Barbara...
No, no, you have callipers that are sort of hour-glass shaped, or two identical "S" curved pieces bolted in the middle. When you take the measurement with one...
... Oh, now I feel properly chastened. To make up for my transgression, and recognizing that URL's do change (and some email servers don't deliver URL's...
.... a small crack in the rear of the box will be closed by the tension of the strings as they pull the sounboard face up. The Queen Mary (or maybe the ...
""Why has it been sooo hard to find harpmakers willing to build in the style of the old harps? I mean, some, like David Kortier, make some lovely harps styled...
Something to consider is the family od folk-stories commonly refered to as "the Two Sisters" where jealousy drives one sister into murdering the other, who is...
""I don't believe a carved construction box could split that way, as there is no place where it is glued together. I mean, how can it split along a glue joint ...
