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I’ve heard and played on harps without carbon fiber soundboards that had poor response but not a long resonance and the lever harps I’ve played generally have a very long resonance without a carbon fiber reinforced board.

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All pedal harps made today are held together with a form of plastic. That’s what Mike Lewis said at the AHS Maintenance Seminar that I attended last summer in San Francisco. I forget the name of the glue he mentioned but he assured us it was plastic. He also said the finish protecting the wood and metal parts of the harp is a plastic and that the gut strings are coated in plastic and the nylon strings are – plastic.

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Rosemary,

The few technicians I know are coin operated .

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I asked about the carbon fiber soundboards and was told that the soundboards with carbon fiber in them are still made out of wood. There’s only a thin sheet of CF in the board.

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