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  • April 27, 2010 at 6:35 pm #74336
    Alice Avery
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    I bought a Lyon & Healy Prelude 40 in March of 2010 and have had 6 strings break on me in this short time that I’ve owned it.

    April 27, 2010 at 7:05 pm #74337
    Tacye
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    How stable are the temperature, and particularly humidity, overnight?

    April 27, 2010 at 7:44 pm #74338
    dawn-penland
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    I think it’s normal.

    April 27, 2010 at 11:25 pm #74339
    Donna O
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    I have a Prelude 40 and it broke only one string in the first 6 months shortly after getting it.

    April 28, 2010 at 12:56 am #74340
    harp guy
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    I have a Prelude 38 and about a month ago it was breaking strings almost every day. I replaced two strings within a matter of minutes because one broke as I was replacing another.

    My harp is a good weatherman. It ALWAYS tells me when a storm is coming and when the storm is over. :/

    April 28, 2010 at 1:06 am #74341
    Dwyn .
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    Is the harp in a part of the house where the heat is turned down much lower overnight?

    April 28, 2010 at 3:36 pm #74342
    Alice Avery
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    A sincere thanks to all who have responded to my inquiry.

    April 28, 2010 at 3:44 pm #74343
    Alice Avery
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    Thanks, Tacye,

    April 28, 2010 at 11:24 pm #74344
    Karen Johns
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    Alice,

    I strongly suspect it has something to do with the high tension in combination with those gut strings, especially the thinner ones. Your other harps don’t seem to have this breakage problem and they are of medium tension with nylon strings.

    Any other thoughts? Perhaps a harp builder like Carl could chime in here…

    Talk to you soon my friend-

    Karen

    April 28, 2010 at 11:34 pm #74345
    michael-rockowitz
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    Alice,

    I’ve also been more strings than I would have expected break, mostly in the highest register, on my high-tension cross-strung.

    April 30, 2010 at 2:40 am #74346
    J P
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    I’ve heard from a number of reputable sources that most 40 preludes and ogdens are coming out with rougher than normal eyelets and that quality control is wanning.

    April 30, 2010 at 12:37 pm #74347
    dawn-penland
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    JP, the Preludes and Ogdens have plastic eyelets, do they

    May 14, 2010 at 12:55 pm #74348
    Alice Avery
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    It’s now approaching the end of May, and I’m happy to say that my Prelude 40 seems to be settling in (no string breakage in a couple of weeks)

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