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Noteworthy Woodworking Harps     
 

Cherry County Kerry (left)  Cherry County Clare (right)

County Clare 22 Harp Has 22 strings, beginning on G below middle C, goes 3 octaves to G. Spruce soundboard and Cherry body. 31" tall, 9" wide at base, 14" deep, weighs 5 lbs. Starts on G below middle C up 3 octaves to G. This is an excellent harp for a beginner. With 6 Loveland sharping levers on F and C notes.  With padded bag, tuning wrench. County Clare Harp HARP 52 (Cherry)  suggested list price $565 SALE: $495 while supply lasts S/H estimate: $55 County Clare Sound Sample

Rosewood Harps

Heather Harp

Heather Harp Approximately 36" high. Featuring 22 DuPont hard nylon strings, a range from C below Middle C to High C, 22 sharpening levers, engraved and inlaid rosewood frame and a laminated spruce or laminated birch soundboard.  Height: 36" Width at base: 9" Back to front at the base: 6 1/2" Back to front at the harmonic curve: 19" Weighs 11 lbs. One year warranty. Comes with a padded case, tuning wrench and extra set of strings. Electronic tuner, books available. Sound Sample (courtesy of Mideast Mfg) HEATHER HARP PACKAGE $345 while supply lasts S/H estimate: $50

Heather Harp Case

Stoney End uses the Loveland brand levers made by Robert Bunker, because they believe them to be the best available for
use on their harps. The sound is the most consistent and they deflect the strings the least of any that they have seen.
They feel that the harp must be tuned and stable before the levers are put on, so that the intonation is accurate.
For this reason, they do not premark the kits. They have instructions available for people who wish to install levers on one of their harps. The process is exacting and detailed but not overly difficult for someone who is careful and patient.
The size (diameter) of the strings varies from .025 inch to about .1 inch on their harps.
The sharping levers are manufactured to each fit only a certain size of string. There is an identifying number embossed on each lever. The string chart that comes with each harp lists the size of each string and the correct sharping lever to install on that string. The following is a chart of the sharp and flat keys and the correct string on which to install a lever in order to get each one. Remember that a three octave harp, for example, will have three F strings and require a separate lever on each one.

  Sharp Keys

Key	No. of Sharps	Names of strings for lever placement
C	0
G	1	F
D	2	F C
A	3	F C G
E	4	F C G D
B	5	F C G D A
F#	6	F C G D A E
C#	7	F C G D A E B

                     Flat Keys

	No. of Flats	Names of strings for lever placement
C	0
F	1	B
Bb	2	B E
Eb	3	B E A
Ab	4	B E A D
Db	5	B E A D G C
Gb	6	B E A D G C
Cb	7	B E A D G C F

Harp Strings We have monofilament nylon strings in many gauges, in clear, blue, and red, usually in 46" lengths. We also have wound strings for all the harps that we carry. Please call or email with a list of what your particular harp requires. If you have a stringing chart, please tell us that information, so we can assist you in getting the correct string. We can have our string maker create new strings, but we need more information (make of harp, vibrating length, pitch, type of winding, etc).  String prices can vary, depending on the gauge and type of core and winding. We have: .025, .032,.036, .040, .045, .050, .055, .060 in clear, red and blue for most gauges. Our prices are (clear, red or blue):  .020, .025 are $1.50 each S/H Estimate: $4 for an order of several striings String Gauge .020 .028 Color ClearRedBlue .032, .036, .040, .045  are $1.75 each S/H Estimate: $4 for an order of several strings String Gauge .032.036.040.045 Color ClearRedBlue .050, .055, and .060 are $2.50 each S/H Estimate: $4 for an order of several strings String Gauge .050 .055 .060 Color Clear Red Blue String Tricks and Broken String Policy:     Strings can break at any time.  Here are some things you can do to help prevent but not absolutely prevent the strings from breaking.Hope that it is either summer, fall or winter.  When the harp is steady or contracting it breaks strings less frequently. Spring going into summer as the harp expands strings break rarely but they do break. Breakage due to tuning can most often be from not noticing that you are plucking one string and tightening another.  Tricks on tuning consist of applying pressure on the string, away from the tuning pin as you tighten the string or to first back off the pressure on the string slightly before you raise it to pitch.  The reason for these two things is that the tuning pin is hard and the harp string is relatively soft.  After time, there may be an indentation of the bridge pin into the string.  On the heavier strings this causes them to get stuck on the bridge pin.  If the string is stuck the tuning pin will pull on the short length of string between the bridge pin and the tuning pin without the string sliding over the bridge pin.  This huge increase in pressure will cause that short section of the string to break. Because of the above discussion, strings are fragile and not warranted. Both the string sheet that came with the harp and the Sylvia Woods', "Teach Yourself How to play Harp", show how to replace a string.

How to eliminate buzz sounds on a harp

The best thing to do is to eliminate the obvious.  Anything that is loose can cause a buzz.   Check to make sure that the two thumb bolts that hold the bottom base on are in line in the threads and tight.    Check to make sure that the harp string is not striking parts in the Loveland lever mechanism, either the secondary bridge pin, or the back of the delrin lever.  If it is striking either of those, it means that the primary bridge pin is either too far in or too far out, respectively, and it either needs to be pulled out or tapped in slightly, respectively, to correct the problem.    Other buzzes could be caused by a loose, cap head nut that tensions the lever on its axle.  The lever or many different washers could be bouncing around in resonance when the correct pitch of string is plucked.     The tail of a string could just be touching the inside of the soundboard causing a buzz, just reach inside through a rear access hole and move the tail off of the soundboard.    A seasonal buzz can be caused by loose nuts on the combination lag/machine bolt that attaches the top plate of the body and the check of the harp.  You can reach up and finger tighten this nut or you can use a socket set wrench with a one foot extension and a 1/2 inch socket to really tighten the nut down.  Don't over tighten this nut.   There normally are no technical problems with new strings themselves.  Rarely the Tynex string can split lengthwise, this will look like a lighter area inside the string.  Even if the string were to do this, rarely can you hear a problem.   Look at where the string is sitting between the secondary bridge pin and back of the lever.  Look to see if it is buzzing on either of these surfaces.

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