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Venus Pedal Rivet Problem
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  • February 12, 2011 at 11:14 pm #72318
    Sidney Dharmavaram
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    I play on a Venus Diplomat in a local orchestra and am looking for some advise.

    February 13, 2011 at 3:04 am #72319
    carl-swanson
    Participant

    You need to have someone remove the rivet and put a nut and bolt attachment in there. Lyon & Healy has something made especially for that. So do I(Swanson Harp Company).

    February 13, 2011 at 3:38 am #72320
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    Is this something normal for a harp of this age? Is that why you think the others should be replaced too?

    It occured to me that the harp belongs to an engineering school. There’s got to be someone there that can make rivets!

    Carl, what does your bolt kit cost? I personally can’t make the decisions on the harp since it belongs to a university, but I can collect the data for them.

    Thanks.

    March 3, 2011 at 10:36 pm #72321
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    Venus harps said they would fix the problem for free, but just getting the harp there would be hundreds of dollars if not more.

    March 3, 2011 at 11:49 pm #72322
    carl-swanson
    Participant

    Sidney- You could have taken the pedal bars off the instrument and mailed them to Venus. They don’t need the whole harp to do this repair. That would probably have cost $10 one way.

    March 4, 2011 at 1:35 am #72323
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    I think in theory that would work.

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