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New Harp Herald is Available

by | Oct 27, 2010 | Harp Products, Moss Harp Service, Uncategorized | 0 comments

The Dusty Harp Pickup installed in a Lyon & Healy 23

The Fall 2010 edition of my quarterly newsletter, The Harp Herald, is now available. The feature article is a review on the new Dusty Strings Harp Pickup, which I had a chance to check out at the recent American Harp Society conference in Tacoma, Washington last July. You can download a copy of  The Harp Herald by clicking here. As always, please feel free to forward it to your friends or print out copies for your students.

A note about those lever harps that do use pedal harp string names: depending on size, part of the first octave may be missing. 34 string harps such as the Lyon & Healy Ogden go up to first octave A. 36 string Troubadours go up to first C. I mentioned earlier that the highest complete octave on a pedal harp is the first, and strings above it are in the zero octave. On some lever harps, the highest complete octave is the second, not the first. More confusion, especially considering that many people own smaller harps when they are new to the harp. For this reason, we’ve also created string charts for common lever harp models, and you can find those here.

On a smaller lever harp, the highest complete octave may be the second, not the first.

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