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Thank you Biagio, the spreadsheet is exactly what I need. Now I’m using it to design a new string set, since the default strings cannot get easily here.

I also tried some Japanese fish lines, fc and nylon. They are really better than my default harp strings and some guitar strings. The problem is their gauges are not always same as in label and I have to measure it to sure what it is when I get a new roll.

[Seiken]

Hi I’m searching fluorocarbon and get into this thread. I have discussed with a local guitar maker and he told that many classical guitarist like fluorocarbon strings more in the last 3 strings, or even the 3rd string.

Since harps is such exactly designed in tension and strength, maybe I could not switching strings safely without plan like what people did in guitars and ukuleles. Now I’m interesting in switching my nylon wrapped strings with fluorocarbon ones(since the wrapped strings have lower tensile in same linear density) but I don’t know how to calculate linear density of wrapped strings. Like this:

Core nylon 0.045″
Wrap nylon 0.01″

With this data, are strings from any manufacturer goes with same linear density? Is it possible to calculate the linear density from this, or I have to disassemble the strings to determine it with my microbalance?

[Seiken]

I don’t sure the broken ones but the remaining strings are installed in the regular way. And I found that the default strings are more yellow than the new ones, maybe aged strings could be the problem here. Anyway the rest seems all okay now.

Thanks for suggestion of the book. Yet it’s hard to order one here(in Taiwan) and I’m getting all guides online. I thought harps would not be hard to self taught in all instruments, until I found that to “keep” a harp is another challenge.

[Seiken]

Thank you Biagio. I have noticed that both the breaking points are at the tuning peg, and I’ll pay attention to it continuously, in my new daily job.

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