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  • November 21, 2013 at 4:58 pm #77736
    paul-knoke
    Participant

    Thank you for sending the link. The museum website is a great resource. I had it bookmarked on my old computer, but it somehow got lost when I moved to the new computer and I hadn’t been able to find the site again. It’s good that the harp still has the swell pedal intact. Most 19th century harps were built with a swell pedal, but the shutters and pedals have been removed from many of them.

    November 21, 2013 at 6:30 pm #77737
    tracey-kjonegaard
    Member

    Just curious, was there actually a benefit to having that swell pedal and the shutters? Did they actually ever play with it closed or was that more just for storing the harp when not playing it? I would imagine it sounding kind of goofy without the shutters opened..

    November 21, 2013 at 6:57 pm #77738
    Tacye
    Participant

    Yes they do work. I describe it as changing the balance between treble and bass.

    See: http://www.harpspectrum.org/historical/the_eighth_pedal.shtml

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