**Attention**Attention**Hey all you harpists out there, have I got some info. for you!!!
Yes, that’s right. If you are a harpist, harpist mom or just interested in changing harp strings for the sheer fun of it, well then, I’ve got a post for you!!!
As many of you know, my daughters play the harp. It is a beautiful instrument and I love to watch and hear them play, so I was so excited when I found out that there was going to be a certified technician here to teach a class on harp care.
This morning my daughter and I went to the harp care class presented by Steve Moss. He is a Lyon & Healy/Salvi Certified Harp Technician. You can catch up with him at his place mossharpservice.com.
Well, Steve did a wonderful thing for harpists everywhere…he let me video him teaching how to change a harp string. He was so wonderful teaching us the knots that ewing and awing could be heard from miles around.
Actually he was so good with the knots that I thought about recruiting him to teach my Webelos their knots. However, scouts don’t learn the harp knots so I’ll have to learn the square knot myself.
Anyway, are the directions for changing harp strings…Enjoy!
Tying a harp sting with an anchor, 0-3rd octaves by Steve Moss from Pearls and Chocolate on Vimeo.
Tying a harp string without an anchor, 4th and 5th octaves by Steve Moss from Pearls and Chocolate on Vimeo.
Stringing a harp by Steve Moss from Pearls and Chocolate on Vimeo.
Locking a string on the tuning pin, 0-4th octaves by Steve Moss from Pearls and Chocolate on Vimeo.
Would you like to buy a harp? Hmmmm…I think I’ll take four or five!
Love the look of harps scattered and such. Can you tell that my girls play the harp rather they want to or not? I still think I’ll take four or five!
10:04 am on April 20th, 2009 1
I don’t play the harp or any instrument for that matter but those are some beautiful instruments and they make beautiful music too.
10:41 pm on April 20th, 2009 2
[...] a recent harp care class I gave at Lyon & Healy West in Salt Lake City, one of the attendees, Michele Rasmussen, was kind enough to shoot a few videos of me demonstrating some techniques for replacing harp [...]
7:47 pm on September 1st, 2009 3
[...] another of the great videos Michelle Rassmussen shot at a harp care class I gave at Lyon & Healy West. Here, I focus on the knot used to anchor [...]
7:47 pm on October 24th, 2009 4
Thanks a million for posting these harp-stringing how-tos. These are much easier to understand than any diagram and have cut my knot-tying time in half.
12:43 am on January 23rd, 2010 5
Thank you for these wonderful short videos on tying harp knots. After three years we still have a struggle doing this with our daughter’s lever harp and dread the process, just because we’ve messed up. Dollars done the drain. Any way great to post these.