Changing Harp Strings: A Complete Guide
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Welcome back to another harp educational video! In this video we'll be covering all about harp strings - types of strings, when to change strings, how to tie the harp knot, how to restring a harp, and more! I hope you enjoy, and if you do, make sure to give this video a like, leave a comment, and consider subscribing to my channel!
I've been working on this video for months and am so excited to share it with you! I love making videos like this, and this one turned out to be my most time- and labor-intensive one yet. If I totaled up all the time between planning, filming, recording voiceovers, editing, and tweaking all the finishing touches, I'd say I've put 30+ hours into this video! So I truly hope you enjoy, and please share with your harpist friends or (if you're also a harp teacher) with your students!
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - INTRO
0:59 - WHY STRINGS BREAK / WHEN TO CHANGE A STRING
1:04 - Environmental causes
1:35 - Physical wear
2:12 - Age
2:44 - String changing schedule
3:35 - Moving the harp
3:38 - Shipping harp/putting harp in storage
4:29 - Restringing before a regulation
5:26 - TYPES OF HARP STRINGS AND WHERE TO GET THEM
5:57- Nylon strings
6:33 - Gut strings
6:52 - Wire strings
7:19 - Looking online for strings
7:41 - String tension
9:02 - Different brands of harp strings
9:20 - Where to buy strings
10:10 - Price of strings
10:57 - Skeleton set
12:54 - Multiple uses from string
13:32 - TYING THE HARP KNOT
13:44 - Tying the knot by itself
15:15 - Tying the knot with a string anchor
15:25 - Large-scale demonstration of tying with anchor
16:44 - Tying anchor demo
17:42 - Tying anchor demo (anchor added after)
18:41 - Dusty Strings "String Buttons"
19:36 - String Button demo
20:50 - :)
21:49 - REPLACING A NYLON OR GUT STRING
22:04 - Detailed complete string demo (lever harp)
23:02 - Creating an anti-slip string saddle
24:47 - Overview complete string demo (lever harp)
26:03 - Detailed complete string demo (pedal harp)
27:09 - Tip for trimming the string afterward
27:40 - REPLACING A WIRE STRING
28:07 - Detailed complete wire string demo
30:30 - Close-up detailed complete wire string demo
32:22 - TROUBLESHOOTING DURING STRING CHANGING
32:42 - Ensure string is winding correctly
33:00 - Check string points of contact
33:16 - Check your knot
33:58 - Try a different string
34:41 - Ask for help
34:53 - SOME FINAL TIPS!
35:03 - Recycling strings
36:06 - Keeping track of your string supply
36:43 - OUTRO
Links to things I mention in the video:
Basics of Harp Care video: • Basics of Harp Care!
Example of string changing schedule: tinyurl.com/mossharpservice
(under "How often should I change my strings?")
Helpful article on string tension: heartlandharps.com/string-ten...
Bow Brand harp strings: www.harp.com/string-products/...
Bow Brand Burgundy harp strings: www.harp.com/string-products/...
Premier harp strings: atlantaharpcenter.com/premier...
Vanderbilt harp strings: vanderbiltmusic.com/strings/
Dusty Strings harp strings: manufacturing.dustystrings.co...
Dusty Strings "String Buttons": manufacturing.dustystrings.co...
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Best string change demo and explanation ever! Thank you! The part where you wind it around the pin has always had me confused. Your video is so clear! ❤️
Thank you so much, I'm glad it was helpful! 🥰
Perfect video, all in one place. Your explanation is very clear. Thank You.
Thank you, I'm glad you found it helpful!
I'm so thankful for this video! I live in a remote region in Brazil (in terms of harp players/teachers) so I don't have that much instruction available locally and this really helped me A LOT, thank you thank you!
You're very welcome, I'm so glad it was helpful! 😊
Very comprehensive vid indeed! Not many harpists learn about the 'skeleton' secret of swopping strings with other in the octave and the trick of reducing string tension when going on long trips or during periods of playing inactivity.
Thank you so much, I appreciate it! 😊
Bridget Jackson Harp
I substitute all the Gut Strings w/ Fluorocarbon (basically a more refined type of Nylon) Strings because they hold tune better.
Thank you, I'm just starting out and have a broken string, and am going to my first Clarsach society meeting this weekend, and want to have a full complement of strings!
Thanks for watching and good luck!
Loved the harp music in the background
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!! It's a little "harp lofi" I made last year, I'm hoping to experiment more with that kind of music soon!
Hi Bridget, blind Goran here.
Congrats on excellent explanation, & fantastic videos. Give your dogs a treat from me.
All the best
Goran
Thank you! 💜
Your videos are always so professional and high quality. ❤
Thanks so much!! 💗💗
I've had my Camac Odyssey for a year, and I have had what I think might be the same string near the top G2 break again today. Humidity is around 70% in my flat and it was up to about 18 C outside but it's usually around 19 to 20 C in my apartment year round. The string broke very soon after I bought the harp. My teacher helped me change it. This will be my first time changing it on my own. Glad I wasn't home when it broke. I understand a breaking string can be quite a shocking noise.
The changing seasons is definitely a time when strings start to break! The lower strings are definitely louder than the higher ones when they break and can cause a bit of a surprise 😄
Thank you for Youri clean lessen About the strings! I have a question: should all levers of the leverbare ( Lyon&Healy troubadour) go down when I’m nog plating?
Thank you, I'm glad you found the video helpful! Yes I'd recommend putting levers down when you're not playing, it will help make the strings last longer by keeping less tension on them 😊
@@bjacksonharp Thank you very much Bridget for thuis clean information!
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The manufacturers keep wanting my model number that I don't have and I'm about to just get some weed eater string......Getting desperate, and just kidding.
Oh no, sorry you're dealing with that! Are your strings a new batch or have you had them for a while? I've found that strings get less reliable the further you are into their shelf life. If you got them recently though and they are breaking already, the maker should replace them free of charge within a certain time frame. It could always just be a bad batch
@@bjacksonharp No. Sorry. I've been listening to the Harp Twins a lot, and my brother had given me a celtic lap harp he brought home from a construction job at the Grinnell College (with permisison college students leave things behind just to make room when they graduate). I've had it a while, now, and the tuning key fell out of the top of the pocket and broke some strings. I've been wanting to repair and learn from You Tube University (ha!). I can't even get started because I have NO support around here, and conversations on chat don't help a guy who's neve played harp before. I twinkled around on it some when I first got it, and it tuned up alright, but I have 4 missing strings (E, G, C, & G ascending). It's not playable that way. I saw a harp online at REVERB, but I'm starting to think that I shouldn't try to do this with no more support than I can get. I'll just try to repair this one. I just hope I don't spend too much on it. It's not very good......the sound box is like balsa wood, and I have a chip in it just from carrying it in a small case with a cloth handle. This is really a rich person's instrument. I have a nice 100 year old violin for my Celtic music that's been repaired, and it stays together fine, but these harps are SENSITIVE and high maintenance, and then they're so expensive, too. I need an email address, I guess......oh, and a publisher (for this book I just wrote). 😀
Are nylon filament strings affected by climate conditions?
Nylon strings in general are more resistant than gut strings, but climate still affects them (more on the temperature side than humidity.) But any kind of sudden change in environment can make any type of string break.
Old wire string can make great jewelry. CZcams wire weaving.
Great tip!! 👏🏼