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the moss harp service blogMy Harp Has a Boo Boo!
It happens to every harp sooner or later. You do your best to be careful when you move. You load your harp in the car with care. You ask the violists nicely for the thousandth time not to push their chairs into your harp. But no matter how hard you try, the time will...
The Care and Feeding of Pedal Felts
As part of a standard regulation, I always replace a harp's pedal felts, the red pads that cover the pedals where they sit in the pedal slots. But why? Often, they look just fine. Sure, if they go too long without replacement, they can get torn up and really affect...
Installing a Gold Crown on a Lyon & Healy Style 23
Q: I have a Lyon and Healy 23 and I was given a gold crown for my birthday. I thought when I took off the wood crown that the gold crown would be an easy installation using the same holes for the screws. Guess I was wrong. Do you have any "installation for dummies"...
Salvi Harps Now Requires Online Registration for New Purchases
Attention recent and future Salvi Harp buyers. The company now requires that new instruments be registered within 30 days of purchase in order to be covered under warranty. Visit the following site to register: https://warranty.salviharps.com.
How to Check Your Harp after a Regulation
Most harpists don't have a professional technician based in their home towns. If you do, this article will bore the heck out of you. Please return to looking at cat videos. If not, you probably have your harp serviced by a technician who comes to your city...
Soundboard Veneer Splits
So, you see some small cracks or splits running along the center strip on your pedal harp, and you’re wondering if this is a sign of scary expensive repairs to come. Fortunately, splits like the one shown in this photo are rarely a cause for concern. As ominous...
Fall 2014 Harp Regulation Schedule
Here's an at-a-glance look at my schedule from late July, 2014 through the beginning of November: July 21-27: Redlands, CA August 25-30: Ann Arbor, MI September 5-8: Interlochen, MI September 19-24: Salt Lake City, UT September 25-27: Spokane, WA October 6-10:...
Lyon & Healy Lever Harps: Pedal or Lever Strings?
I was talking with a colleague over at harp.com, Lyon & Healy's partner website for strings, accessories, and all things harp, and he told me that his customers frequently experience confusion over what type of strings to buy for their Lyon & Healy lever harp....
Check out Harptechguild.com
There's a new website called harptechguild.com, sponsored by the Lyon & Healy/Salvi Technicians Guild, that can come in handy when you need to know which technicians serve your area and when one will be coming to town. While I wish everyone in the world would just...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Go Down the Stairs Backwards
Recently I witnessed a harp-moving accident. Well, actually, I was in a nearby room, but I heard the yelling and saw the blood when I came running. Thankfully, the only damage to the harp was cosmetic, and the blood was only from a minor scratch. Things could have...
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