If you own an Ogden, Prelude, Troubadour, or Folk Harp, don’t send that order back! You’ve got exactly what you need. The harp comes with a dust cover, tuning key, and interchangeable feet and. New Premier strings installed October 2021. It has a beautiful even tone across the entire range. This harp is in excellent condition, with only one minor touched up blemish on the base. The problem arises, according to my friend who handles orders and shipping, is that many customers are confused when their order arrives and they find they’ve received a set of pedal harp strings for their lever harp. Lyon and Healy Mahogany Prelude 40 lever harp, 61674, bought new in November 2016. The site includes a form where you can select your model of harp and get a list of the appropriate strings. You don’t need to keep all of this information in your head if you generally order through. The electric Silhouette is also strung with lever harp strings. Both of these are strung with Bow Brand lever strings. Other models of Lyon & Healy lever harp were designed for the player who intends to stay with the lever harp. In esssence, these models of lever harp function as “starter” pedal harps as far as tension, sound, and feel are concerned. This eases the transition for a student who begins on lever harp and then progresses to a pedal harp once she has decided she’s crazy enough to stay with the harp. Since Lyon & Healy is a pedal harp maker, they have long designed most models of lever harp they produce to have the same spacing, tension, and feel as their pedal harps. The same is true of the Folk Harp, which is no longer produced, but there are still lots of them being played. Lyon & Healy’s three current models of lever harp, the Troubadour, Prelude, and Ogden, are all string with pedal harp strings. The confusing thing is that many models of Lyon & Healy lever harp are designed to take pedal harp strings. Bow Brand, which produces strings for Lyon & Healy and, produces both pedal and lever harp strings. It may last a good while yet.I was talking with a colleague over at, Lyon & Healy’s partner website for strings, accessories, and all things harp, and he told me that his customers frequently experience confusion over what type of strings to buy for their Lyon & Healy lever harp. I have played the 19 for sale now at LH and it is a magnificent harp, not rebuilt. Some of these older harps have a more piercing tone than the rounded one we are used to. I had to really push to get the sound out of the tight response, but it projected extremely well, and balanced against the piano as well as a 23. I once did a harp and piano recital on a style 16, straight sound-board and gilded column, and that harp was hard to play. I think lighter is better, even if it means replacing the neck. My harp has gained weight from 78 pounds when I ordered it, to 81 when I received to 84 pounds after rebuildings. Lyon & Healy,founded in 1864 in Chicago and is well recognized for it’s clarity of. All the harps are now bigger and heavier than they used to be. Hong Kong Harp Centre is the official Dealer of Lyon & Healy’s Harp and was awarded The Best Dealer in 2019. 13.005 off new list price of 33,000 This harp is at the Atlanta Harp Center Showroom in Alpharetta. 6505-23 Built in 1970 with an excellent sound. The original Salzedos had very wide sounding-boards, so I wouldn’t say they were smaller, and they usually had wide string spacing in the bass. Lyon and Healy Style 23 Concert Grand Pedal Harp (Pre-Owned) This auction is for a Lyon and Healy Style 23 Pedal Harp. With a straight soundboard, you have to work harder to project your bass tones. The extension gives it the pear-shaped tone we strive for. There is a clear difference between the straight and extended sound-board. The Chicago model harps have the same quality but are uniform and good in sound. They can sound wonderful and like dreck, depending on the instrument. That makes them more in line with Erard harps. The 15’s have less bass without the extension of the soundboard. Any variation in the height of the instrument from one model to another was simply a matter of adding more wood to the top of the column(the Salzedo model) or the addition of a crown. The concert grands were the largest and included the style 3, 8, 11, 23, 26, and Salzedo model. After that, there were several numbers that are no longer made: style 16, 19, and the 15, 17, and 22, all of which were the same semi-grand size, with either a straight or extended board. After WWII, they may have discs on the top string.īefore WWII, Lyon & Healy had 4 different size harp frames. The 15’s that are pre-WWII may have been 45 or 46 strings, with just an overstring post for the top string(no discs). After WWII they were simply ungilded turned columns. A 12 pound difference between two 15’s sounds like a misprint, or someone simply guessing.ġ5’s built before WWII had carving and a combination of gilding and bronze powder. The differences in height for the same model could be with and without a crown, which is about 2 inches high.
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