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  • July 27, 2010 at 11:20 am #73787
    Jessica Ray
    Participant

    A student’s Lyon & Healy folk harp has two strings (4th octave D&E) that won’t stay “in the notch” of the pin if that makes sense.

    July 27, 2010 at 11:38 am #73788
    jennifer-buehler
    Member

    That might help.

    July 27, 2010 at 11:41 am #73789
    carl-swanson
    Participant

    The problem is not the string but rather the angle of the string above the stationary post. On lever harps the string has to go from the tuning pin to the stationary post(with the notch in it) more or less in a straight line. If there are too many windings on the tuning pin, and the string above the stationary post angles in towards the wood neck, then it will pull the string out of the notch. You may have to unwind the string from the tuning pin, pull up the slack, and then wind it up again to put the string in a straighter line.

    July 29, 2010 at 12:37 pm #73790
    Jessica Ray
    Participant

    Thanks for the help!

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