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August 9, 2011 at 5:53 am #71506
earecka-tregenza
MemberDoes anyone know how many strings the Style 12 had, and how long the early Lyon and Healy’s had ivory string holes (or string pegs)? I’m trying to figure out how large the 12’s were, and what they may have looked like. Thanks very much!
August 9, 2011 at 6:26 am #71507john-strand
ParticipantHi – I ran your request through google pictures – here is a link to a 12 on ebay a while back – there is a picture, but the quality is not good – there is also some information about the harp in the listing
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280655804054+&clk_rvr_id=254091489125
Here is another link to a 12 at the michigan harp center – the picture is also better –
There was a very sweet lady here who had a LH 14, the “Anniversary” model
and what I am seeing in the pictures looks exactly like her harp except hers did go down to 6th E – I’m sure if you contact harp restoration folks such as Carl Swanson, you will be able to find a great deal of the information you are looking for –have fun,
JohnAugust 9, 2011 at 11:41 am #71508carl-swanson
ParticipantI’ve got a style 12 here that I will be putting up for sale at some point. First though I have to replace the neck and clean the action. They were the smallest pedal harps that Lyon & Healy made. I believe they were made in the 1920’s and ’30’s and probably stopped at WWII when Lyon & Healy stopped harp production for several years. I’ll look at mine sometime today and tell you how many strings it has.
August 9, 2011 at 12:22 pm #71509catherine-rogers
ParticipantI was interested in the Style 12 when Lyon & Healy began offering it again in 1987. I have a letter from the sales manager at the time with the specs and a picture showing it beside a concert grand and the Troubadour; it was shorter than both. I later received another letter stating that the Style 12 would not be available due to low demand.
The letter read: “The Style 12 has 41 strings and measures 63″ high, a total width of 32″ with a soundboard width of 13″. The weight is approximately 56 pounds.”
The price then was $5,995 excluding shipping. I decided against it primarily because of the small soundboard, but it was very pretty. The upper section and lower section of the column were bronzed, and the middle section was fluted with bronzing in the recessed areas, similar to the Style 15. It also had a bronze stripe along the top and bottom edges of the base and the upper edges of the neck, again very like a 15. Since it was a black and white photo, I don’t know whether the body was ebony or walnut, but it was a dark finish.
August 9, 2011 at 4:37 pm #71510barbara-brundage
ParticipantI believe that the “carvings” were plastic or some kind of resin composite then, though, weren’t they? I seem to remember that being one reason I didn’t want one.
August 9, 2011 at 8:33 pm #71511ParticipantI didn’t realize that L & H was going to reissue the 12 back in the ’80’s. The ones that I have seen from the ’20’s and ’30’s had carved decoration.
August 9, 2011 at 8:43 pm #71512ParticipantI don’t know what the carved parts were made of but it looked like the designs you see on old Lyon & Healy harps or old Wurlitzers. If I knew how to post the ad they sent, I would. When Carl posts a picture of the one he is restoring, I can tell you if it looks the same. I have saved almost everything Lyon & Healy ever mailed me. It’s interesting to compare old price lists!
August 9, 2011 at 9:37 pm #71513jessica-wolff
ParticipantI’ve seen one at the International Harp Museum here in Orlando. It was an old one and very appealing. Also an ad for one at the Michigan Harp Center and another one–Carl Swanson’s, maybe?
August 9, 2011 at 10:40 pm #71514ParticipantYes, the old ones are very charming, but I’m quite sure that buried somewhere in the promo materials for the reissue was an explanation that they could offer at that price because it wasn’t really going to be carved.
August 10, 2011 at 12:42 am #71515ParticipantIt would be interesting to hear a report from someone who bought one in the 80s, if any were actually made and sold.
August 10, 2011 at 1:13 am #71516patricia-jaeger
MemberOver time when I had a harp rental business I had three Style 12s, each of which I bought used. two had 41 strings and one had just 40. The stringing became slightly narrower in the second and first octaves, so that one could miss a string one wanted, if the player’s hands were trained to find octaves and other intervals automatically.
August 11, 2011 at 9:14 pm #71517MemberThank you all so much for the info, as well as the links to pictures of 12’s online. It really helped!
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