Category: Harp Maintenance

Ep. 294 – an example of regulating your pedal harp

In episode 294 of Harp Tuesday I invite you to come along with me as I adjust the positioning of my bridge pin in order to get rid of an annoying twang.

Want to learn more about harp regulation? Check out this episode (plus the list of links).

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Ep. 290 – A new harp! Regulating loveland levers on a Dusty Strings Ravenna

A new year, a new harp! I couldn’t resist a Boxing Day sale on a used, 26 string, Dusty Strings Ravenna. I love the sound and am planning some projects for it, but first I want to regulate the levers and I thought I’d use that as an opportunity to film the process and show that it’s maybe easier than you think!

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For more on regulation, check out episode 126 as well as this livestream.

Dusty Strings has a useful PDF on the process.

Ep 126 How to regulate your harp

Some useful links:

Dusty strings:
https://manufacturing.dustystrings.com/harps/accessories-hardware/tools-maintenance
https://manufacturing.dustystrings.com/blog/sharping-levers-camac-vs-loveland

Thormahlen Harps:
http://www.thorharp.com/pages/regulatingcamaclevers.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRcLPupXuIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFKYjmmjzvM

Great set of articles about all sort of harp maintenance by Mike Lewis, here’s the link to the article on regulation:
http://www.harptech.com/Articles/Regulation/Regulation.html

Rees levers:
https://reesharps.com/regulating-rees-harp-levers/

Loveland levers (via musicmakers): https://www.harpkit.com/mm5/pdf/Instructions/Lever-1Regulation.pdf

 

Ep. 10 How to change a string

How to change a harp string:

I later did a follow up to this episode, plus an episode on changing wire strings:


And low octave gut strings:

I also did a live-stream of changing the strings on my lever harp:

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