What is the name of this part of the harp?

[JohnBrisbane]

Hi folks

Does anyone know the proper name for the metal ‘brace’ thing that that sits across the centre sound hole on the back of the harp? On Style 23s and 11s it’s quite ornate whereas on Salzedos, 100s, and 30s it’s quite plain.

I know that some people strap a tuning to them with a leather pouch.

I can’t for the life of me find what the proper name is that, for instance, Lyon and Healy would call it by.

Thank you so much in advance if anyone can answer.

John

[Sylvia]

Maybe one of the harp techs would know.
I thought it was called a handle.
Mine don’t have them (LH15 and Etude).
I attach my leather tuning key holder thru the holes and around the wood.

[carl-swanson]

It’s a handle. And it’s called: a handle. It’s not a brace and it has nothing to do with anything structural on the harp.

[JohnBrisbane]

Thank you! 🙂

[Andelin]

Lol Carl! I don’t know if you were trying to be humorous but I thought it was funny. 🙂

[carl-swanson]

Ah! At last! Someone who appreciates my warped sense of humor!

[Tacye]

It wouldn’t call it a handle – it’s a ‘handle’ with definite quotation marks because I was taught never to attempt to move a harp by one. I wouldn’t trust my harp to something held on with two rather small screws.

[Anonymous]

Definitely agree with Andelin, Carl: that reply was just so funny, that even if it had been meant 100% seriously, it would still be 100% funny! ^^

[hearpe]

I have always called it the “Pinata function” because that’s where I hang my harp from while blind folded ninos y ninas try to knock candy out of it with a silver hammer. That’s also why I never put any candy into my harp, because who needs young gringos trying to break your harp apart?

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