Arsalaan, I was wondering if you have any intentions of building more Dilling Harps in the future? Or if not, are you looking to pass the business on to an...
Hi, Guys; With the holidays over and a little money left to spare, I intend to start on the neck of my Vulcan harp tomorrow when the big slab of walnut that I...
Hi Ron, here are some ideas that came to mind: 1. An experiment I tried once, to get an idea of the effect of the closed back on a traditional Gaelic harp: Lay...
Robert Winokur
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Jan 8, 2008 8:18 am
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On my "Psalter" harps, I've been putting sound holes along the side of the body instead of the sound board , with good effect. The sound board seems to be...
... That's a good test of the effect f the soundholes, but I've found that you want the tabletop to be well padded so the top itself doesn't act as a vibrating...
Just checking out what the physicists have to say. Interesting article on the sound from the soundboard vs the soundholes. The reference is below: Acoustic...
... lift the harp while it's still ringing, etc. It gives an idea of what difference closing and opening some holes makes in the sound. Hi Guys; The way the...
hello, I tried building a harp years ago with the soundbox completely closed. It was muffled. I cound feel some vibration in the lower back, so I cut the...
Fascinating! I've been mulling the installation of multiple side soundholes with angled acoustic deflectors to direct that additional sound forward toward...
I did a search for "helmholtz" in the archives and found some relevant messages going back as far as 1999. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions: ...
Robert Winokur
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Jan 9, 2008 7:30 pm
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Yes, but how about all the discussion of the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the old fashioned doors that filled the soundholes? Tacye ... -- Tacye ... zzz......
This may suggest an experiment to do with harps, and illustrates a few principles of how design affects the sound of a sound box: Back in 1983 I was interested...
Robert Winokur
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Jan 10, 2008 7:51 am
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It has occurred to me that one of the factors in the tone of a harp is the length of the sound box. It's something like a closed tube, with standing waves...
Robert Winokur
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Jan 10, 2008 7:51 am
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Hi Harpmakers, I am looking for information on Elysian Synthetic Gut strings. What is their composition? Are they the same as the synthetic gut strings offered...
My harp has a beautiful ... In Maine we say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I am interested in these strings ... From a vegan standpoint consider the...
I had a working string calculation spreadsheet, but the computer died and I'm trying to reconstruct the spreadsheet on a new computer from paper notes. With...
John- Herešs my American Hypercard expression: put (pi * (diam/2)^2 * L * R) into M -- for calculating mass of the string with R=density put (4 * (F^2) * L *...
Dan
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Jan 18, 2008 12:34 am
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Thanks, Dan, between you and Tacye I got it to work. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi to all! As I am building my second chromatic harp - (the first one was a small instrument, light stringed) - I wonder about the thickness of the soundboard....
John, A free String Analysis Spreadsheet is available for downloading at MusicMakers, www.musikit.com, menu "Library", "String Analysis" for Nylon, Steel,...
Pickup placement question On a pickup with a bar shape rather than a circle: Has anyone tried aligning the bar pickup parallel with the string rib (ie...
Hi, Guys; I just added a couple of new photos to my album of the walnut neck I had made for my harp. I was doing pretty well on it until my bandsaw ruined the...
Hi everyone Beware of anyone offering to buy a harp from you by sending you a check for larger than the amount, and then asking you to send back the balance....
Hello Glenn, Thank you for the heads up. I've seen this scam before in other venues. I am so glad you didn't fall for it. What always gets me is the use of...
Hi Folks; If you look at a Vulcan harp, you'd see that the lower part of the vee is dead straight from the end of the curve down to the foot. While it's very...
I have a straight 2x2 about 2' long with some coarse sandpaper glued along one edge. I use a straight edge to check for high spots and work one those first. ...
That sounds interesting, Roger; what's the sandpaper for? Ron ... glued along one edge. I use a straight edge to check for high spots and work one those first....
Leveling, it isn't a simple thing. I have only one plane, and it will not plane very straight. The straight edge shows some curvature. You carefully sand down...
There are a couple of things to consider - the tool and the technique. Most planes have to be fine tuned before they are capable of planing a flat surface....
