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George,
Just looked through Zora’s site, I speak Spanish fluently and lived in Venezuela for years, (Hola Zora, Como estais vos!). Sadly not a whole lot of help there for you. However, from my experience the Venezuelan harp is close to the Peruvian harp and I believe shares common ancestory
Geri has your string breakage lessened? I was concerned as 13 htz high is not excessive and your string breakage should not be occurring. When I am settling in a new string on a test jig I frequently bring it a full step and one half over and allow it to settle back down over night without breakage.
What harp do you have?
Contact Jean at Vermont Strings… She’ll need dimensions, but she can size your strings for you readily.
Thanks Audrey… You know, I wonder of the engineer in me did not shoot me ion the foot. I never gave the double stringing much of a try and went right to the single string configuration, but the Trinity I am rescuing had double stringing….hmmm Points to ponder, perhaps the double stringing provides a relief?
Thank you all. Steven you truly hit home. I have been reading the replies aloud to my wife, (Micheal, she wants to know if you are my long lost twin?), and she and I both gave pause at Steve’s excellent advice and the very sincere manner in which it was offered.
I leave tomorrow on a three week trip. Steve, my harp goes with me and I will be spending my motel evenings practicing. I will hate it, but I will do it. You are right.
Thank you.
Aodhán has a lovely voice! Thank you for sharing that Audrey, I do so admire your dedication and preserverance. I really should do that myself some day. However….
Forgive me Father for I have sinned
And what was your sin my son?
I stopped practicing seriously and became addicted to jazzing with Jimmy Buffet music!
I am afraid I have become addicted to it and then I discovered how lovely Clarsita complements the steel drums. I am now a prisoner of Margaritaville!Audrey I am ruined for life!!
Hmmmm I am going to send the designer some questions… why not equidistant with the accidentals just a tad higher?
I tried rosin and chalk dust as well, but I was past that point and the dowels were my only answer. I also believe the parallell grain alignment to the pin helps as well. I chose the birch dowels as they are slightly “elastic” and seem to return more to the original shape when stressed…now they are inserted in cherry and did cause a mild cracking at first, but I have measured and monitored it since the original cracks appeared and there has been no progression. I suspect the birch swelled a wee bit more from the glue then the cherry did.
