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  • August 31, 2011 at 2:50 am #157031
    mary-ann-brogan
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    I am

    August 31, 2011 at 2:08 pm #157032
    alice-freeman
    Spectator

    This is excessive. Contact either your harp store or Lyon and Healy directly.

    I had 11 strings break on a new harp in a 5 month period and the manufacturer ended up changing the type (and tension) of the strings in the worst offending area. They were too close to their natural breaking point.

    — Alice in windy Wyoming.

    August 31, 2011 at 6:20 pm #157033
    Tacye
    Participant

    I have just found one of my old harp diaries – for the 2nd year I had my 85CG.

    September 1, 2011 at 1:30 pm #157034
    mary-ann-brogan
    Participant

    Thank you for your response and your input. . I do leave enough slack and in a few instances left a little too much slack. I do have a call in to the technician at the harp store. One of the thought

    September 1, 2011 at 1:32 pm #157035
    mary-ann-brogan
    Participant

    Thanks

    September 1, 2011 at 3:43 pm #157036
    kreig-kitts
    Member

    Are you using gut the whole way up? My second octave is the highest I’ve gone in gut and it breaks the most, so I got a nylon second octave to replace it and will begin changing the octave once my spare gut supply runs low enough.

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