Benoît asked if there is a way to "calculate the harmonic curve." Theoretically - A good rule of thumb for monofillament strings is to double their length...
Rick Kemper
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Jun 1, 2004 3:48 pm
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Just to round out the shared information about parabolic harmonic curves the following two articles appeared in the Folk Harp Journal. He generates the...
Aunt Heloise here with more helpful hints. . . Eyelet splits/Migration I have noticed more and more harps with splitting eyelets, or eyelets that have begun to...
Rick Kemper
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Jun 4, 2004 7:38 pm
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Hi All, Looking for a way to get my soundboard as dry as possible before mounting it on the box, and watching the hygrometer in my shop hover around 70%, I hit...
I have, in some cases, used a Fostner bit and inset 3/8" round ebony or maple plugs (1/2 the thickness of the soundboard) and through the center of which pass...
Dan Cady
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Jun 6, 2004 1:45 am
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I have had extremely good luck using rift-sawn rather than quarter-sawn spruce for soundboards. None of the harps I have built using this wood have split after...
Julia Lane
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Jun 6, 2004 2:19 am
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I've gotten into the habit of using a trimming router bit in my table mounted router to true up edges of thin spruce for the sound board. A trued board...
Rick Rubarth of www.rharps.com uses a truss rod system in a couple of his harps. The truss rod is inlaid in the pillar. I imagine it works like the truss rod...
I thought I recalled - and that I had saved - some discussion on the merits/demerits of assymmetric soundboards - those with the stringrib purposely offset...
Hi David, Sorry if you already know of this site,however, you may wish to check out the W.M Rees site, in particular the article on the assymetrical...
Harps_UK/International http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Harps_UK/ If your looking for a harp then why not browze the links in Harps_UK/International? We...
Dear Rick, After speaking with you on the phone yesterday, I realized you may not be aware but we've moved. Our new address is: Vixen Harps 330 Besserer Street...
I have a question about basic design ... Given equivalent soundboard conditions, what would be the differences in sound quality and volume if any, between the...
First of all, you can't just look at a string's length and tell how it will sound. There are far to many other variable. Harps are 'wholes', not 'sums of...
I agree with Murray - it will depend on the soundboard and sound box that the strings are connected too. The .065 string is going to have more mass....
Rick Kemper
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Jun 16, 2004 6:35 pm
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Lets shake things up a little. . . . . Wm. Rees has some thought provoking material on his site. I nod in agreement with much of the practical advice he...
Rick Kemper
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Jun 16, 2004 8:14 pm
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... here ... etc No, no, no. The pitch, or frequency of the string, is a function of length, tension and the linear density of the string material. It is ...
What Stan said is right....thickness of the string, however, will not change pitch for a given length, but it will change tension. My point, (misstated in my...
Hi Folks, I'm planning to build a harp based on the Sirr harp. The differences in I have in mind are as follows. First of all, nylon strings rather than wire,...
Here are some basic measurements of the Sirr Harp as they appear in The Irish an Highland Harps by Robert Bruce Armstrong. Top of sound box is 3 3/8" wide,...
Does anyone know where to get plans for an Italian Arpa Doppia style instrument or similar multi row harps? I was told that a builder named Tim Hobrough had...
Dear friend: We have 43 and 45 string paraguayan harps ready in case sombedy wants to buy them. As you know paraguayan harps only use nylon strings (wound and...
caraul@...
Jun 19, 2004 3:25 pm
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... Tim Hobrough can be reached at: The Historical Harp and Clarsach Trust Fordyce Joiners Workshop Visitor Centre Fordyce Aberdeenshire Scotland AB45 2SL Ed...
Hi folks thanx to those people who pointed http://www.eldalamberon.com/charlotte.html . It is a very interesting site.One of the first things I did when I...
Dear friends: Again, there are double harps in Paraguay. We do make double set of string harps (paralell and crossed) but only upon request since very few ...
caraul@...
Jun 20, 2004 4:21 pm
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Dear Greg: The answer is NO. We use dougle aluminum set of tuning pegs on the neck for double harps. No other way. Usually guitar pegs are used in common harps...
