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pdf of the string chart, upload it to the wiki's asset repository, and then message Harp Wiki! jpg of the string chart, add it to the photo gallery below. Includes a substantial canvas covered traveling trunk in which it may be shipped as baggage, felt cover, tuning hammer, tuning fork, gold plated string gauge and screw driver." String Chart ĭo you have a string chart for this harp? Add it here to help other harp players order their strings! Newly patented guaranteed unbreakable neck brass head plates, artistically lettered, hand polished and lacquered gold plated discs and string nuts nickel tuning pins. Aluminum crown also finished in gold leaf. Column and base hand carved and covered with pure gold leaf.
"Handsomely figured maple body, natural color, highly finished and French polished patented enlarged sounding board of selected old spruce genuine primavera side and top strips with rosewood corners. If one or more are at a slant your holes probably got out of whack during drilling.According to the Lyon & Healy 1927 Harp Catalog: It is also possible your drill bit was too small, but be cautious about drilling a bigger hole. If you have problems a little more lubrication may help. These screws are made of brass and are not terribly strong. Their instruments are enjoyed by musicians in most of the finest orchestras of the. Quickly becoming one of the premier harp makers in the US, Lyon & Healy has continued to create master craft harps, both pedal, and lever, for harpists the world over. The heads will strip easily and the shafts can break. Lyon & Healy has been making harps in Chicago, Illinois since 1864.
However, if you are fighting them, you need to stop. It is best to go around in a circle from screw to screw, tightening each a few turns at a time.ġ5. Ideally, each screw will set right into its holeġ4 Tighten screws. Remembering to keep the “X” in front, set your crown in place. Lubricate screw threads with beeswax or soap and place them in their holesġ3. Slanted holes will pull the crown off centerġ2. Be careful to hold your drill as close to perpendicular to the wood as you possibly can. Mark your drill bit with a piece of tape so that you don’t drill too deepġ1. This is the depth of hole you want to drill in the wood. Place a screw in the crown and note how much screw protrudes from the hole. The screw threading should be a little wider than the drill bit, but not muchġ0. Determine this by holding the drill bit in front of a screw. This marking will help you remember where the front of the crown isĩ. I define “front” as the direction you would face if you were sitting at the harp. Using a screwdriver or other fairly solid, fairly sharp tool, scratch an “X” on its bottom nearest the front screw hole.
Using a punch, nailset, or awl, mark holes as close to the exact center of each screw hole as possibleħ. When you like the position of the crown, pull down firmly so that the double sided tape will hold it in place temporarilyĦ.
Center crown as best you can, sighting from underneath at all anglesĥ. Rotate if necessary so you can drill into virgin wood.Ĥ. Entre Ana de Salvi o Prelude 40 de Lyon and healy, sin duda, PRELUDE es la mejor opción (para mi, eso va muy a gustos). Ideally, the screw holes should point to front, back, left and right, but you need to avoid being too close to existing screw holes. Including tuning key, cover, wood crown, bronze coloured crown, wood feet, bronze coloured claw feet. Set the crown lightly on top of the column. Have a chair or step-stool available so you can see the top of the columnģ. put two pieces of double-sided tape on the bottom of the crownĢ.