[johnny]

Try contacting Frans and Jean-Pierre Castermans in Maastricht. That shouldn’t be too far from you. http://www.castermansharpen.com/
They have the most impressive work ethic combined with excellent skills and a genuine interest in any harp of any make. They transformed my more than 100 years old L&H to a fully functioning instrument that sounds beautifully. Wizards!
I strung the harp with light Bow Brand guts and made sure to order a 5th G gut as this string used to be a gut string back in the days. You can identify this if you see a change in the string hole at either 5th F or 5th G. If it has a white-ish ivory-looking ring, it ought to be a gut string there.
The wires I bought from Clive Morley Harps in the UK and they are Gothic brass strings that are slightly lighter than any mainstream bass string. You would want to keep the tension on the low side on an instrument of this age so also consider if you can tune it to 440 rather than 442.

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