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Lyon & Healy belongs to Victor Salvi. He bought the company in 1986. If they read this they will squawk that I am wrong and that both Lyon & Healy and Salvi belong to a Swiss holding company, but that is nothing but a shell game. Ask them who owns the Swiss holding company.
Charles- Someplace I have several of these old catalogues too, and one or two Wurlitzer catalogues. I remember reading in one of them from the mid 1920’s that a 23(always gold at that time) was something like $2,500. 40 years later, when I started studying the harp, the gold 23 was only $1,000 more, or $3,500 or so.
It’s interesting to note that until 1972 when CBS bought Lyon & Healy, the harp division had never made a nickel profit for the company. It was a ‘prestige’ item whose production was supported by the rest of the company business. The same was true of Wurlitzer. That’s why, towards the end of the depression when the Wurlitzer harp makers demanded more money, Wurlitzer refused and instead shut down the whole harp division, because even in good times it had never turned a profit.
David- I too remember all the hulabaloo surrounding Marcus Klinko. He either had a very aggressive publicity agent or he did a very aggressive job himself. At the time the local classical music stations would occasionally play a cut from one of his CD’s. I’ll just say here that I was dumbfounded.
I wrote a blog here about humidification last year. You should read that. The short answer to your question though is that any humidifier that blows out “invisible” air(i.e., no visible vapor) is appropriate and should be placed close to the instrument.
David- I’m sorry about all your back trouble. I certainly hope the surgery gets you back functioning again. I blew a disc in my back about 4 years ago so I know just how bad it can get. Fortunately I was able to heal completely without surgery. Good luck. I’m envious of one thing though. You get to take all those downers! I loooooooooooooove downers.
Kay- Thank you so much. The woman who gave the harp (who shall remain anonymous) deserves the most credit. She is an absolute angel.
Bonnie- I agree with you. There is a difference between censorship and guidelines. Guidelines suggests to me that there be a format to what you have to say, while censorship forbids you from saying certain things, regardless of how you express them. I don’t really go to any other discussion site on the web, but I understand that there is a tendancy for people to say things on the web that they wouldn’t think of saying to someone face to face. Perhaps if we all, when placing a post, imagine that we are sitting around a table discussing this or that, would we say what we want to post to someones face? If not, then don’t hit the ‘Post’ button. More than once I have written out a post to something hear, reread it, and then deleted the whole thing. Which reminds me: Please everybody, after you have written your post and before you send it, reread the whole thing for content, spelling and grammar before sending it in. Thanks.
Tacye- The first rule of conservation and restoration is, like in medicine, is do no harm. That means don’t do anything that is not irreversible. For that reason I don’t believe that a compound like epoxy has any place in either gilding or finishing a harp.
Tacye- I would never use epoxy for gilding or any kind of finish work. It’s unrepairable, and if you have to remove it, the only way(THE ONLY WAY) is scraping and sanding. There is no stripper or remover that will soften it.
Maria- I don’t think it’s necessary to put a cover on the harp to protect it when not being moved. Even the cover touching the gold can scuff it.
