Based in the beautiful market town of Llandysul, Ceredigion, Teifi Harps is a small company with a big passion for harps. We know that the most important element of any harp is its sound, so we invest our traditional craftsmanship and technological innovation, in producing an instrument that sounds wonderful.
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I would recommend placing the string through the eyelet from the top of the soundboard and then pulling that end out from the back to make the knot. This works for all the strings except for wound nylons and wire strings which are manufactured with an anchor already in place.
Hello, any ideas on how to amplify a harp with a "common" microphone, like a Shure SM57 or a condenser microphone like the Shure SM81. What would be the ideal position and direction of the microphone?
Ideally buy a piezo contact pickup, they have 3 or 2 separate ones that all go into one 6.35mm 1/4" female audio jack plug, stick them on, or in, the sound box low, mid, high, and run a cable to pre-amp, amp, or PA. Surprisingly good sound & value. A boom with the 57 aimed at one of the higher sound box holes migh work in a pinch but really it's too directional for the task. The condenser on a boom about 1.2 meters away, or so, from the strings would work well in isolated situations like solo live or recording but would pick up a lot of spill, if accompanied, otherwise.
@@marcomellaveloso2891 Your welcome. I've recently seen those 3 piezio, into one jack, contact pickups on e bay for under $20. The single ones are more common; but the 3 into 1's are around. All the best!
I first played this not looking too closely and was like “aw man I wish I could work towards this but I have a lever harp” then I noticed 😧 that’s so impressive
This is brilliant, really helpful. We have an old second hand harp and my daughter is taking her Grade 1 exam next week and I've been sweating a bit incase we have a string go. Feeling more confident now with several practices on old strings - thank you 🙂
Thank you for this video! The same string broke twice on my new harp, right where it goes into the soundboard. I'm going to follow the advice in this video to, hopefully, solve the problem.
