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1. #YOUTUBE HOW TO CHANGE A LYON AND HEALY HARP STRING PDF#
2. #YOUTUBE HOW TO CHANGE A LYON AND HEALY HARP STRING PROFESSIONAL#

*Our Burgundy Pedal Gut strings are lower in price than the standard Bow Brand Pedal Gut strings, due to slight imperfections in appearance.

#YOUTUBE HOW TO CHANGE A LYON AND HEALY HARP STRING PROFESSIONAL#

The Lyon & Healy “Folk Harp” model uses a combination of LEVER and PEDAL gauge strings: Pedal Nylon, Bow Brand Pedal Gut or * Burgundy Pedal Gut and Folk Wires DONEGAL - Professional Lever Harp By Salvi Harps. THESE LYON & HEALY LEVER HARPS USE VARIOUS GAUGES OF STRINGS: THESE LYON & HEALY LEVER HARPS USE LEVER GAUGE STRINGS: Pedal Nylon, Bow Brand Pedal Gut or Burgundy Pedal Gut, and Pedal Bass Wires THESE LYON & HEALY LEVER HARPS USE PEDAL GAUGE STRINGS: Clicking on the string type will take you to a page to order that string. We suggest that you print this chart and use it for reference as you order strings.

#YOUTUBE HOW TO CHANGE A LYON AND HEALY HARP STRING PDF#

Please be aware that some Lyon & Healy lever harps use pedal gauge strings and others use lever gauge strings.Ĭlick on a model name below to get a printable PDF string chart. For the purposes of this piece, though, when we say lever harp, we mean the more lightly-built type and not the pre-pedal type. The lowest note on most Lyon & Healy lever harps is in the 6th octave.Īll C strings are red and all F strings are black. Some lever harps, like the Lyon and Healy Prelude and Troubadour, are built to sound and feel more like pedal harps, and thus have the same heavily-reinforced construction and high-tension strings.

The highest note on lever harps is in the 1st Octave. Octaves run from an E string on top, down to an F string. 3rd Octave E), as they are on pedal harps. It's tonally and structurally happy with the tension of this set, but I think it could be bumped a gauge to 42w, 28w, 17, 12 as I tuned it up to DAEB above standard CGDA with the strings on it and it seemed just fine.Strings for lever harps made by Lyon & Healy Harps, are designated by octave number and note name (e.g. The bridge is compensated for 2-wound, 2-plain strings (and I looked back in my L&H Washburn book to see the original catalog drawings which also show that compensation - usually mandolas are compensated for 3-wound, 1-plain), so that's what I strung it with - 40w, 26w, 16, 11 gauges - like a heavier mandolin set. Work included fixing that brace, installing a rosewood "helper block cleat" over the cracked-up area near the endblock, giving it a fret level/dress, and setting it up. Ouch! Fortunately that was the worst of it aside from a couple interior glue drips and a detached main brace. It looked ding-dang clean, too, until I saw the severe punched-in area under the tailpiece. I was truly surprised to see this pop out of it.

This one came waltzing in with a local customer, who carried it in a beat-up old tenor banjo case. In this episode of Harp Tuesday I show you how I change the pedal felts on my Lyon and Healy style 30. The high-grade L&H mandolins are rare enough (though the cheaper Washburn-branded, Regal-made ones are not too rare), but mandolas like this one are even harder to find. The back and sides are all heavily-flamed maple instead of birch, too, and the whole instrument exudes "high class violin." The fancy scrolled headstock with its top-mounted tuners is just icing on that cake. How does it sound? - like a good Gibson mandola that's even better. How is this carved and braced? - almost the same as a Gibson mandola from the same time - but thinner and lighter and with a little more nuance. The Lyon & Healy carved-top mandolin family strikes me as being composed of super-refined versions of the Gibson oval-hole A-style mold.