by Steve Moss | Apr 21, 2009 | Harp Strings |
[vimeo 4214699] During a harp care class I gave at Lyon & Healy West in Salt Lake City, one of the attendees, Michele Rasmussen, was kind enough to shoot a few videos of me demonstrating some techniques for replacing harp strings. The videos came out great so I...
by Steve Moss | Apr 2, 2009 | Harp Strings |
In the last two posts, I have discussed some of the differences between nylon and gut harp strings. I strongly recommended that, despite their significantly higher cost, all harpists use gut strings in the fifth through the third octaves. In this range, gut strings...
by Steve Moss | Mar 30, 2009 | Harp Strings, Uncategorized |
Welcome to the second installment in a series of posts about pedal harp strings. In my last post, I discussed some of the structural differences between gut and nylon strings, and how these differences translate to differences in sound character. To recap, gut...
by Steve Moss | Mar 26, 2009 | Harp Strings |
Most new pedal harps come from the factory strung in nylon in the first (top) octave, and gut in the second through fifth octaves. Lever harps that use pedal harp stringing and tension, such as the Lyon & Healy Prelude, Troubadour, and Ogden, and the Salvi Ana,...
by Steve Moss | Mar 17, 2009 | Harp Strings |
You may have heard that you need to replace your strings before a regulation. Why, you may ask? Do you have to change all of them or only some? You’re hiring a technician. Why can’t he or she do them, for crying out loud? Let’s explore the answers to...
