do harps with Savarez strings get a belly?

[deb-l]

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.

[howard-bryan]

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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