The tunes are O’Keefe’s Slide and The Tenpenny Bit. The harp is an Ancient Muse by James Skeen of Folcharp. It has 21 brass strings. Alli plays beautifully!
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The Pinocchio
Behold, the latest model of FolcHarp: The Pinocchio! [Actually it’s a form for making harp cases]
ambrosial maple
Ambrosial maple in the wild! Maple is a very fine tone-wood, it is an excellent choice for making a harp. And keep in mind that if the harp is from Europe, what they call sycamore is actually a type of…
wire strung thanksgiving
Haven’t had occasions to do any demos of late. So here’s this one for the season: Harvest thyself a Wire Strung Thanksgiving!
mulberry muse
21 string Ancient Muse harp made of mulberry wood. Here it is basking in its bath of mineral spirits. If no irregularities are detected, it will spend a few days in the dry room for the moisture in the wood…
enigma under spirits
The Ancient Enigma (25 brass strings) proofing with a bath of mineral spirits. Now it will go into the dry room bring the moisture content of the wood down a bit before finishing.
legume luthier
The humidity in the Southern Appalachians makes maintaining a favorable wood moisture content a dicey proposition. Finally the humidity is dropping toward more fall-like levels and I am ready load the harp assemblies into the drying room (a sea-can) to…
cherry spirits
After too long a hiatus, I am finally back in the shop. In the mean time the resins of the cherry wood of this harp polymerized deep into the wood. After scraping and cleaning the surface. a wash of mineral…