Lyon healy harp crown 85
But the way they are constructed, there is no chance of them lasting more than a few years, and the cost of trying to correct these stupid construction mistakes is prohibitive. When they are new, these harps look and sound nice. There are lots of lever harp makers out there, and I’m afraid that the bulk of them use construction techniques as ridiculous as this one. On that one, the entire soundboard, on both sides, has ripped loose from the body, because there are no screws reinforcing the glue joint. The school that owns this harp also owns another one by the same maker, which is slightly smaller but exactly the same design and construction. The soundboard on this instrument, which is thin plywood, is simply glued to the body, with no screws reinforcing the glued edges, and no top strips at the edges of the soundboard. The treble end of the neck, where the kneeblock should be, is just the width of the neck and that’s it! So the neck is totally unsupported at either end. That kneeblock is what keeps a lever harp (i.e.
LYON HEALY HARP CROWN 85 FULL
He used 4 dowels!! On the treble end of the neck, there should be a kneeblock extending the full width of the top of the body. But on closer examination, it turns out that this idiot didn’t even use a mortise and tenon to join the column and neck. The neck should be tenoned into the column. I assumed that the column was tenoned into a mortise on the underside of the neck, which already would be a weak and lousy way of joining the column and neck. At the column end, the neck extends all the way to the end of the column, and the column is butted up to the underside of the neck. The neck is leaning badly over towards the strings. The moron who built this, whose name is on the company, clearly had no idea what the stress on the instrument does over time, and clearly did not understand how any harp needs to be constructed. But it is now several years old and has major problems due to idiotic construction. On the surface, it is a good looking and sounding instrument, with loveland levers on all strings, nice finish, good looking wood grain. I was just asked to look at a lever harp made by a well known maker.