Restring THIS

[Chris Pile]

How about a harp peghead....
The builder used cheap guitar tuners instead of high quality harp tuning machines.
Lotsa room to tie on nylon strings.... (not)

 

[Mincer]

Yikes! I have a 22 nylon string harp. I can't imagine using anything but good harp tuners on it.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Wow. Not designed for easy restringing, that's for sure.

Sometimes people fail to envision ever having to do maintenance on their design.

A friend once had a nice German car where you couldn't change a headlight bulb without removing the battery and its tray.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Well, not so hard if you have tiny needle nose fingers.

 

[Securb]

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[Mincer]

To be fair, a harp isn't something you restring often.

 

[Securb]

To be fair, a harp isn't something you restring often.

To be fair neither is my bass

 

[Chris Pile]

To be fair, a harp isn't something you restring often.

Totally not kidding. I did ONE Celtic Harp, and ONLY one - never again. And it was done for a good friend on Christmas Eve (as a gift, of course). I thought I'd never get it done. Strings took forever to stretch, and a couple broke. Drove me crazy.

A local music school teacher brought me her ChromaHarp for a restring, and I told her HELL NO. She took it to every store in town, and no luthiers would touch it.

 

[Mincer]

Was the Celtic Harp a steel string? Those sound amazing.

 

[Chris Pile]

Some strings were brass.... and they were the ones that broke the most.

 

[Blille]

I won’t complain about restringing my autoharp again

 

[Mincer]

Harp is one instrument that could stand some serious re-engineering with the tuners.

 

[Fender_Punk]

Be sure to listen to Nirvana Unplugged while restringing!

 

[GuitarStv]

Finally, a use case for locking tuners!

 

[piblock]

Finally, a use case for locking tuners!

The harps with Floyds come standard with locking tuners.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Needs an Alt8 ...

 

[Mincer]

Finally, a use case for locking tuners!

Actually, some sort of locking tuner would be a good idea. Not like a guitar tuner, more like a harp tuner with a lock. Ideally, not something you'd need to use a tool to turn.

 

[NegativeEase]

How about a harp peghead....
The builder used cheap guitar tuners instead of high quality harp tuning machines.
Lotsa room to tie on nylon strings.... (not)

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Ouch, yikes, -frightening!

Another post clearly about drug trips! ICT you are a scofflaw!

 

[JB_From_Hell]

A friend once had a nice German car where you couldn't change a headlight bulb without removing the battery and its tray.

Anybody with a Cadillac has these problems in spades. Bumpers needing removed to change headlights, batteries that take 2+ hours to change, etc... Ask Chrysler about taking the driver's side front tire off many of their vehicles to access the battery.

 

[Demanic]

Anybody with a Cadillac has these problems in spades. Bumpers needing removed to change headlights, batteries that take 2+ hours to change, etc... Ask Chrysler about taking the driver's side front tire off many of their vehicles to access the battery.

I always hated the fact that you had to pull the water pump in order to change the timing chain on a V8.

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