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Harp Spectrum Buying A Used Harp What to Look For When Buying a Used Harp When I had grown up and was ready to buy a larger than my parents had been able to afford, I called the only harp company I knew, Lyon & Healy, and asked “Do you have any used harps?” They replied, “We have one, a Wurlitzer Starke Model Orchestral Grand.” “How much?” “$2,500.” “I’ll take it.” This was in 1965. It’s still my only pedal harp today.

Fourteen years later, when I decided to start teaching, I knew I needed some student harps. Where to find them? I opened the yellow pages and started calling music stores. Long story short, after following leads to stores and harpists, I found eight Troubadour in one weekend (in 1979 most of the other now famous small harp makers hadn’t even started yet).

All were in various conditions, but playable, so I took what I could find. I wouldn’t advise you to buy your personal harp the way I did, and probably today you wouldn’t feel that you had to take poorly maintained ones to begin teaching, as there are so many harps around now. After reading this article you won’t have to just trust to luck. I’ve contacted harpmakers and repairers and harpists to get their input on what you should look for when you’re thinking of buying someone else’s harp.

Those who responded are: harp restorer and builder; harp tech and regulator; harp builder and repairer; master harp technician; and harpist colleagues/Harp Spectrum committee members John Carrington, Patricia Jaeger and Patti Warden. Basic Guidelines If you don’t care to read this whole article, here are some basic guidelines. Lever Harp: you would like a reasonably straight column, a fairly flat soundboard, and no visible cracks inside (use a flashlight) or outside. You want the levers to make accidentals without sounding out of tune (use an electronic tuner to check).

Pixplant 3 Crack 4 here. Congregation Afghan Whigs Rar. • Levers: Check the functioning of the levers for tone – is the quality of sound about the same when the levers are engaged and disengaged? Accuracy – check with an electronic tuner to see if the strings stay in tune from natural to flat or natural to sharp. The latter can be readily adjusted, however. • You may want to replace the strings, which can run you a couple of hundred dollars depending on what kind and how many you buy.

You will want to play the harp and hear it played by someone else to see if you like its sound. Parts of the Lever Harp; used with permission of the Pedal Harp: as with the lever harp, you would like a reasonably straight column, a fairly flat soundboard, and no visible cracks inside (use a flashlight) or outside. Be sure the discs engage the low strings by putting the pedals in the lowest notch and checking that the strings are not “falling off” the pins of the discs. If they are, the neck needs to be replaced. • Pedals:You want all the pedals to work and to move smoothly with no clicking, and you want them to make the accidentals in tune – check all the octaves with an electronic tuner, in flat, natural and sharp. If the pedals are working quietly and smoothly, the tuning can be fixed by getting the harp regulated by a. You don’t want to hear buzzes in the harp, though these, too, may be fixed.