My levers “buzz” when I play

[unknown-user]

I have a Cecelia folk harp( Webster). My levers “buzz” when I play.
So much so, that I can’t concentrate to practice. I’ve tried
tightening the levers,but it doesn’t seem to help. Any advice?

[unknown-user]

Hi, do all of your levers buzz?

[unknown-user]

Great response!!^
Some of my levers buzz also:(

[unknown-user]

This is interesting.

[unknown-user]

There are many reasons for buzzing levers.

[HBrock25]

WOW I know these posts were a while ago, but I’m facing the same problem with my harp. I live in India so you can only imagine my situation with the climate not being too kind, but I have been managing fine. It’s not that bad actually. For my harp, the buzzing started first with just one string and then as time went by more strings started buzzing and I could not understand why. A bigger limitation for me is the fact that India has no harp makers or retailers who can help me out. I’m on my own here, so websites like these really help me out.
Luckily for me all my compositions don’t allow me to use accidentals so for the stings that buzz with the levers on it I just keep the lever off and tune the string accordingly. But I do want to eliminate this buzz. Are there any other ways I can do this apart from the above mentioned.
Thank you all so much
Anushka Lewis
http://soundcloud.com/nushlewis

[dave-lynch]

The first thing I would check is the contact point between the lever and the string.

[shelby-m]

This may or may not be helpful, but my harp teacher really likes to rip into the harp when he’s playing and this causes the bass wires to buzz against the levers (when the levers are and aren’t engaged). Eventually, he just took off his lowest C lever (and maybe the D, too, I can’t remember) and his buzzing problem went away.

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