by Steve Moss | Oct 18, 2024 | Uncategorized |
When servicing harps for our customers, one thing we see more often than we’d like is a string that is either way too thick or way too thin for its position on the instrument. In most cases, the string is the right letter, say a “C”, but in the wrong...
by Steve Moss | Jul 13, 2024 | Uncategorized |
In a previous post I reported on an introduction to the new Sipario BioCarbon harp strings that we received during a recent technicians conference at Lyon & Healy in Chicago. Just after the conference Liza and I got an opportunity to partially restring a Salvi...
by Steve Moss | Jul 15, 2023 | Uncategorized |
Introducing our latest product! How to Regulate Your Lever Harp, Book One: The Loveland Lever. This is the first volume in a new series of books focusing on lever harp regulation, designed for the harpist (or harpist’s significant other!) who would like to...
by Steve Moss | May 1, 2017 | Harp Repairs, Uncategorized |
Your harp’s pedal caps, the black rubber pads that cover the tip of each pedal, are designed to give your feet traction as you move the pedals. Over time, and the more you use them, pedal caps wear away. In the case of the slip-on type, they can also split or...
by Steve Moss | Mar 1, 2017 | Uncategorized |
When is a harp buzz not a harp buzz? When it’s coming from somewhere else in the room. The world we live in is teeming with objects that want to deceive us into thinking our harp has a buzz. Disguised as ordinary lighting fixtures, heating registers, even as...
by Steve Moss | Jul 1, 2016 | Uncategorized |
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...
