Dear list, Ann and Charlie Heymann with their daughters will perform as "Clairseach" this weekend June 3 and 4 at Conner Prairie Living History Museum for...
Greetings all. Very quiet here, recently, or have I just not been getting the messages, I wonder? Credit where credit is due - some time ago I was asking...
Hello Richard - What is a toggle and what is a zoggle? I have no idea what those are. But if they are helpful I want to know about them! And how could a...
I just came across a gorgeous Witcher harp for sale on Craigslist in Los Angeles, California. It's an O'Ffogarty reproduction, and it's a sight to behold....
Hi all, Just wondering how the silver string experiment is going and also how do I go about converting the bass notes on my current harp to silver? (what info...
For my part, having played with silver strings the past six months, I have been disappointed. I liked them at first, but throughout most of that time I kept ...
I replaced the three bottom strings on one of my harps (made of koa wood) with silver about two years ago, and was thrilled with the result soundwise -- except...
I used silver in the bass and never had any problems and my harp (a QM replica) is made out of a solid block of italian black poplar which is similar to...
Cliff, It's far more likely that the string length is too long to handle the silver strings at the desired pitch. How long were the strings that broke and at...
... Sorry to be so long to respond. I thought someone else would answer this question, and then I got distracted.... A toggle is either a short section of...
... I think Craig is probably right. I have silver strings on two of my harps, and know of many others who have silver on their harps, and there has been very...
I have 3 silver strings on my Otway on the bottom. We are talking D,E, F on a 32 string harp. They sound fabulous. I had thought that experimenting had been...
Ann Heymann has what she calls "screaming hard" silver that she says can be used up to g above middle-c, but I think that's as far as we can go with silver. Ed...
And to add my penn'orth: the 6 silver strings at the bottom of my Kinellan type Ardival have been on for nearly 3 years now and up until now haven't broken....
... even more - I _was_ the harp stork. Went all the way from Poznan to Rzeszow (I took a train, so - trip both ways with putting the strings on and all - 24h...
Good to hear from so many keen silver stringers *G*. Was also wondering how the silver string affects the strings above? Do you have to change string...
Thinking of replacing my three lowest stings D,E,F# Approx measurements for these strings are... (22)3D - 52.5cm (20)3E - 49.5cm (19)3F# - 47.3cm Approx string...
MacDonald Harps Skye http://www.thirdsun.org.uk/ Macdonald Harps Skye situated in Portnalong on the west coast of the Isle, hand craft reasonably priced wire...
Kazzy: Based upon Arto's String Calculator, and assuming that you are currently using yellow brass, 21 gauge (0.72 mm diameter) half-hard sterling silver wire...
The hardness of the wood and the method of construction will not affect the string's liability to breakage. When you get to the point where the string has too...
Greetings. I am fairly new to this group; I joined a couple of months ago while building Dennis Waring's verions of the Queen Mary harp. This was a real...
Dale, Arto's calculator is designed for lutes and such and would take a lot of diddling to be useful for harp. Another string calculator by Robert Hart and...
... Thank you, Tim. It's good to know the full story. I can't remember that term you were searching for either, but the zoggle certainly was an idea who's time...
Arto is a lutenist, but he changed the maximum density at my request so I could try gold. I find it pretty easy to use. You need to know the density of the...
Hmmm. Wonder what she means by "screaming hard"? Any idea? Doesn't seem like it would be a term that a wire supplier would know right off. I've been away,...
She has it specially made along with an antique formula for brass called "latten." I don't know how the hardness is achieved. Ed Peters ... Doesn't seem like...
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