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  • February 19, 2013 at 8:44 pm #76306
    deb-l
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    My Aziliz shows no signs of developing a belly.

    Do Savarez CF (Fluorocarbon) strings produce a belly on a harp like nylon and gut strings?

    Do small harps get a belly? Maybe it’s because he’s height challenged?

    Maybe the harp is still too ‘young’? (7months – but the Dusty which is only a little older is developing one)

    thanks just curious.. may have nothing to do with the above, camac mentions some special soundboard construction for the Aziliz model.

    March 13, 2013 at 2:32 pm #76307
    howard-bryan
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    All harps eventually get a belly. It has been said that the Irish harpers knew that a harp would only develop its mature voice once it was “pregnant with sound”. A lightly strung instrument with a reinforced soundboard will be slower to develop a belly than one that is solid wood and more heavily strung.

    The Savarez flourocarbon strings for pedal harp that I have measured actually are less heavy than gut, and impart a little less tension, but I think the flat soundboard is a function of the soundboard construction, which makes it quite stiff.

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