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I have taken the advise and slackened off the strings on the morley. I will see if I can get a technician over at some point ( I want it regulated anyway )
I still can’t find much history about the harp- morley just say it’s one of theirs but I’m still not 100% sure of the exact age.
Thankyou Tracey . It wasn’t intentional to have a harp in each room. I only intended to have one – I think they suit Georgian rooms ( house was built in 1785) but I then saw the second and was very cheap plus I preferred the look of the grecian so I bought that too. By the way I’m not a designer.
I’m just a retail manager.Thankyou Gretchen.
If I had seen that I prob wouldn’t have strung it up with the strings it has. However it doesn’t seem anything like one of the old erards – it’s made like a modern harp.
I have an old Schwieso Grosjean 1820s grecian and that’s tiny by comparison and is made totally differently – when I even tried to put tension on the Schwiesos strings ( they are light tension ones) it was creaking and making the oddest unhealthy noises. The morley doesn’t seem to mind the modern strings.
However would you recommend I leave them tensioned up or should I slacken them off?Thankyou. Well as I said I bought it purely as a decorative harp. It had all the strings missing. Whether I should have done or not I got a set of new strings and because they were cheaper ( remember it wasn’t going to be tensioned up) I put on high tension modern ones for a concert harp- but I found it was fine and it plays fully tensioned up.
I say ‘loud ‘ compared to a grecian one I bought.If it’s painted or varnished- have you tried t cut? Sounds mad but if it works on a cars painted surface it should work on the harp. Also if it’s black try the colour magic car polish- again it will lightly remove slight scratches and the colour could cover/ fill deeper ones.
