In this episode of Harp Tuesday I show you how I change the pedal felts on my Lyon and Healy style 30. Hope you find this useful! 🙂
Category: Harp Maintenance
Ep. 189 – Do new wire harp strings make a difference?
My Camac Excalibur is almost three years old (hard to believe!) and I recently replaced the wire strings.
In this video I talk about and offer tips on the process, as well as playing before and after sound samples to try and give an idea of what effect it has to put on new strings!
Ep 139 – How to change 5th Octave guts strings
For more on changing strings, check out episode 10.
Ep 131 How often do harp strings break? Do I need a replacement set?
Ep 127 practical tips on tuning your harp
In this episode of Harp Tuesday I offer a few practical tips on tuning your harp. For some additional information on tuning, see Harp Tuesday ep. 5
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: