[Harp-L] Lowering a Harp - advice

["Henderson, Peter" <Henderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Matt Smart" <matthewsmart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote...

I am about to attempt to lower a Low D to a Low C and have tuned
harps, but have never done this. Any advice on lowing the harp...where
to tune on the reed, tools etc.?

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Matt, I have a couple low C harps that Richard Sleigh built for me.
What he did was add solder to the tips of all the reeds and then fine
tune them.  I can only imagine how difficult and time consuming that
must have been - but what a fabulous instrument!  Short of that I
suppose you'd have to take metal off the rivet end in order to drop the
pitch a whole step - I don't know if that would significantly weaken the
reed at it's pivot point or not, perhaps others on the list can address
that.

Trip Henderson ~ NYC