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Liath, “Fiendish” is it now?
And here my wee fingers were enjoying the natural position of the wire after straining so hard to obtain the hitch hiker pose of the nylon & gut!!
Would love to see your pictures. Walnut is a hard wood, I winder which is harder? Cherry is also quite tough, I have carved both.
I don’t paint my strings. I use blue and red sharpie markers and I just color the ends, about 3cm or so. Like you, the colored fingers drove me nuts. I already get enough looks because of my nails, having them red & blue makes it worse.
You have sold me, I will be going all steel for sure.
Karen,
I keep looking at Musicmakers and seriously investigated their Limerick in wire when I first decided to go to wire. I became very cautious when I saw that their dimensions were the same for wire as nylon. The physics simply tell me this should not be done and I backed away.
I would be very interested to know if anyone has successfully built and used a wire strung Limerick.
And here you have my now dear friend Audrey whom I have come to like quite a bit. She’s right, the Paki’s can be a crapshoot. I was lucky I guess in that while mine was used, it was well cared for and I am afraid I am more of an engineer then a musician, so I promptly took it apart and put it back together!
Sound wise, Mike has done some amazing work with a resonator box on one and I have played with the stringing quite a bit.
Oh no, the PHSO debate one more time!!
Kim, I now have a very dear friend that I debated quite heatedly on this issue.
Pakis are cheap and for some, a good entry level harp. Others do not feel that way.
I started with a Paki, it served it’s function for me and now I am happily plinking on a Clarsach and my grandchildren are starting with the Paki.
I know my Paki is not a concert grand. I also know I was sucessfully able to regulate and srting it such that the sound was acceptable.
As my true preference turned out to be wire, I am quite happy I never invested more in a conventional strung folk harp then what i paid for the used Paki. Had my leaning been more to conventional, I might have regretted it… but after watching my grandkids sit in front of me as we match notes up and down the scale, I am glad they are not “Boinging the strings” on a more expensive instrument.
Lani,
Actually my grandson appears to have perfect pitch!! Sure doesn’t come from me!!Your tuning wrench went off today, USPS.
Send me an address to Columcille@cableone.net and I’ll drop one in the mail this evening.
On your sliding pin,
Just check the pin diameter diameter and match it Audrey and you’ll do fine. I replaced all mine with blued pins because I prefer the look. I also bored out all the holes and plugged them with Spruce dowels which I left slightly proud and then drilled for the zithers.
Brandon,
Welcome to the forum.
Brandon… Let me tell you a bit about being a boy and later a man, been there done that.
When I was a teen, I loved sculpture. And I loved to spend hours in an art museum drinking in the beauty of the art. I also loved cars and I had a rather extensively modified and customized car that I had worked on for over three years. Actually in it’s way, it was sculpture, I had reformed various parts of the body and created a work of art.
Of course everyone knew my car. One day at school, I was asked what my car was doing parked outside the art museum the previous Saturday.
