HOW TO MAKE A TALHARPA!

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The talharpa, also known as a tagelharpa (tail-hair harp) or the stråkharpa (bowed harp), is a multi-stringed bowed lyre from northern Europe. It was formerly widespread in Scandinavia, but today it's quickly making a resurgence as the polarity in Nordic music groups such as Wardruna and Hielung grows.
Talharpa were traditionally built by hollowing out a single block of wood, and gluing a soundboard on top, as demonstrated by various historical finds. In modern times, many tagelharpa makers continue to build their musical instruments from solid wood. The Talharpa that I have built is a hybrid of modern and traditional styles. This was my first attempt at building a wooden instrument and I was very happy with how it turned out. Hopefully I will find time to be able to make another Talharpa in the Future!
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Timestamps/Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:21 Talharpa Body
9:25 Horse hair Bow
11:05 Sound Bridge and Pegs
11:56 Tailpiece and Strings
13:44 Wood burning and Staining
15:50 Assembly
16:52 Playing the Talharpa
18:42 Notes, Materials, and Tools
Materials:
10ft by 10x1.5in wood board
4x4ft pine plywood (use spruce if possible)
2in and 1in x 4 ft dowel rod (pine or hardwood)
Wood stain and sealer
Horse hair, fishing line, or cello strings
Bow and string resin (i used dark)
At least 3 microtuners
At least 2ft of paracord
Wood glue and hot glue
Tools:
6-14 pressure clamps
Dremel or rotary tool
Sander and sandpaper
Wood chisels and hammer
Jigsaw, hand saws or circular saw
Floppy sanding bits (80grit)
Drill or drill press with drill bits
Diamond burrs or engraving burrs
Wood burner or laser engraver
Brushes and razor blades
Notes:
I forgot to film a few steps including: placing the bass bar and sound post, sealing with polyurethane and adding hot glue to the string peg holes.
When you make a talharpa in this style, it surprisingly works as a “3 in 1” instrument. It can be played as a bowed harp, plucked like a traditional harp, and can even be played as a snare drum sisung the Vegvisir area of the soundboard!
Horse hair is difficult to work with and breaks very easily so make sure you buy more than you need. Resin is also required for the instrument to produce sounds.
Songs used in The Video:
• Most Epic Viking & Nor...
• ♩♫ Epic Viking Music ♩...
• Viking music (Epic bat...
• Freya | Nordic Vocals ...
Inspirations and resources:
Wardruna / @wardruna
Hielung / heilung
Skald / skÁld
• Picking materials for ...
/ @nicolaerollin
/ @ebanisteria.musicale

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@fransoldman841 15 дней назад

That was awesome! I know the patience and focus it took to build that! Beautiful instrument!

@wayne00k Год назад

Nice build. I've been thinking of doing the same for a while now. Very much appreciate you sharing this. It has given me much to consider. I've been building other folk instruments... diddley bow, cigar box, rhythm pieces etc. Truly love the sound of the tagelharpa. Cheers

@Bullski123 Год назад

To be your first bowed lyre it is very well made and very viking/fantasy themed. But i find the bottom plate and the walls a bit to thick,they should be around 5-6 mm like your soundboard. In your soundclip,it sounds a bit "thin",but there is volume in it - (higher tuning=more volume). If you made thinner walls and bottom,u would have got a warmer sound to it,i think. Dont get me wrong,its well made,like i said. Just a tip to remember for your next taglharp. Keep building! ;)

@wayne00k Год назад

Good point about thin box walls. I haven't actually had my hands on one of these yet but have been giving thought to a skeletal structure with veneer shell... like a traditional cello. I've got to get one to fiddle around with a bit. Cheers

@danaldrin5862 Год назад

Well done! Lots of effort went into this and you accomplished your vision. One thing I noticed was how you used the chisel. I used mine like you do for years, but then one day an old timer told me to flip it over so the beveled side is TOWARD the workpiece. I thought he was insane, but I tried it and he explained to me that when the bevel side is DOWN you can angle the chisel up and down better to moderate the depth of your cut (assuming the chisel is very sharp). Using it bevel side up tends to bite into your workpiece and rip out more than you intended. I just thought I'd pass that along because if we don't, the good ideas die with us. Keep on making stuff!

@JaGuahhSoundAlchemy 9 месяцев назад

brilliant work. thanks for sharing!

@chilabs07 Год назад

Cool video well done! Sounds good too :)

@nulno Год назад

Beautiful

@lars-stefanlindberg7543 Год назад

As a northern scandinavian i love this video and feel drawn (pun intended) to the instrument, its sounds of home. But I see that it's often is sped up and on the crucial steps (bow, tuning, strings etc), I would prefered those steps to be shown in slow pace to be able to see the crusial steps and learn how its actually done, but keep it up it looks great and sound awsome! Try Rosin if you tried beewax, sounds better!! Im gonna make one myself this summer, going for as close to history-accurate as possible to the documented viking-age findings. One question, what gauge of the fishingline are you using and how many of that line is twisted into said string? Because I feel that horsehair is level 2.0 hahah. Vallhalla väntar broder, greppa ditt kalla hjalt och be för kraft i dina slag! skål! 🍺🇸🇪

@TIMO140 Год назад

yeah,muy buena

@sertraline6192 2 месяца назад

Hi sorry i know it’s been a while since making this but how would this work with fishing line? Do you need to twist them as well to make a string or is it just different thickness?

@jasintoperez2685 Год назад

What kind of wood should be used in the construction of these harps?

@Artamonov-Grigory Год назад

Столько труда и в никуда!

@bearshield7138 Год назад

very nie work

@insanetrain7 Год назад

How would you chathis to make a bass or celloTalharpa

@guitaleleoeuvre 8 месяцев назад

I want one.

@czerniana Год назад

Was there a reason you cut out the sound holes after you attached the plywood? Or was it just a ‘dang, shoulda done that first’ moment?

@nateweeks4094 11 месяцев назад

It's easier to cut through when floating vs sitting flat on something as you would have to cut through the material that it's sitting on

@user-kr6dt8hl9l Год назад

You can do without the fine tuners and stick to peg tuning and replace the paracord with rope if you want to take a more traditional route.

@user-yz2ns5zo6y 8 месяцев назад

Can you share the blueprints?

@stillfrankieg Год назад

Very nice, but you probably should have added a sound peg as well as a bass bar.

@dylandorvee Год назад

It does, just forgot to film it haha

@RealHunterVR 8 месяцев назад

Out of curiosity, can this be played both bowed and plucked?

@FungalHarmony 8 месяцев назад

I think it probably could! I’ve seen pizzicato violin and cello before, so I don’t see you you couldn’t!

@argi0774 11 месяцев назад

There is a much better way to hollow out the bottom part than turning a large amount of solid wood to dust with the router

@lukejohnston5566 8 месяцев назад

Use a coping saw or some kind of reciprocating saw like a jigsaw.

@sharonart9903 11 месяцев назад

It gives me the feeling that the strings were a little loose... even so, very good work

@chandlerclodfelter7413 9 месяцев назад

I like the instrument itself but a talharpa bow should never be tight until used by the player

@Aftenstorm 11 месяцев назад

Nooo, not the vegvisir :( I literally wanted to start crying when I saw you engraving that symbol on this beautiful piece.

@nateweeks4094 11 месяцев назад

What's wrong with that symbol

@Aftenstorm 11 месяцев назад

@@nateweeks4094 That a lot of people add it withing their viking art, and this symbol has nothing to do with paganism or the viking age. It's an Icelandic christian stave symbol from the 1880's.