Changing Harp Strings: A Complete Guide

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Changing Harp Strings: A Complete Guide

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Bridget Jackson Harp

Күн бұрын

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@hererightnow1 Жыл бұрын

Best string change demo and explanation ever! Thank you! The part where you wind it around the pin has always had me confused. Your video is so clear! ❤️

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I'm glad it was helpful! 🥰

@connieLo87365 Жыл бұрын

Perfect video, all in one place. Your explanation is very clear. Thank You.

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you found it helpful!

@pheona1000 11 ай бұрын

Very comprehensive vid indeed! Not many harpists learn about the 'skeleton' secret of swopping strings with other in the octave and the trick of reducing string tension when going on long trips or during periods of playing inactivity.

@bjacksonharp 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I appreciate it! 😊

@salmanthorpe2293 5 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm just starting out and have a broken string, and am going to my first Clarsach society meeting this weekend, and want to have a full complement of strings!

@bjacksonharp 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and good luck!

@RockStarOscarStern634 Жыл бұрын

Bridget Jackson Harp I substitute all the Gut Strings w/ Fluorocarbon (basically a more refined type of Nylon) Strings because they hold tune better.

@user-yf1wl9dm4x Жыл бұрын

Hi Bridget, blind Goran here. Congrats on excellent explanation, & fantastic videos. Give your dogs a treat from me. All the best Goran

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 💜

@jonatanmartini4517 8 ай бұрын

I'm so thankful for this video! I live in a remote region in Brazil (in terms of harp players/teachers) so I don't have that much instruction available locally and this really helped me A LOT, thank you thank you!

@bjacksonharp 8 ай бұрын

You're very welcome, I'm so glad it was helpful! 😊

@trjointhirsch753 Жыл бұрын

Loved the harp music in the background

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!! It's a little "harp lofi" I made last year, I'm hoping to experiment more with that kind of music soon!

@forget9to514 Жыл бұрын

Your videos are always so professional and high quality. ❤

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!! 💗💗

@acolleenjones Жыл бұрын

I've had my Camac Odyssey for a year, and I have had what I think might be the same string near the top G2 break again today. Humidity is around 70% in my flat and it was up to about 18 C outside but it's usually around 19 to 20 C in my apartment year round. The string broke very soon after I bought the harp. My teacher helped me change it. This will be my first time changing it on my own. Glad I wasn't home when it broke. I understand a breaking string can be quite a shocking noise.

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

The changing seasons is definitely a time when strings start to break! The lower strings are definitely louder than the higher ones when they break and can cause a bit of a surprise 😄

@madeleinebenjert2616 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for Youri clean lessen About the strings! I have a question: should all levers of the leverbare ( Lyon&Healy troubadour) go down when I’m nog plating?

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you found the video helpful! Yes I'd recommend putting levers down when you're not playing, it will help make the strings last longer by keeping less tension on them 😊

@madeleinebenjert2616 Жыл бұрын

@@bjacksonharp Thank you very much Bridget for thuis clean information!

@edhotchkin5938 Жыл бұрын

The manufacturers keep wanting my model number that I don't have and I'm about to just get some weed eater string......Getting desperate, and just kidding.

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

Oh no, sorry you're dealing with that! Are your strings a new batch or have you had them for a while? I've found that strings get less reliable the further you are into their shelf life. If you got them recently though and they are breaking already, the maker should replace them free of charge within a certain time frame. It could always just be a bad batch

@edhotchkin5938 Жыл бұрын

@@bjacksonharp No. Sorry. I've been listening to the Harp Twins a lot, and my brother had given me a celtic lap harp he brought home from a construction job at the Grinnell College (with permisison college students leave things behind just to make room when they graduate). I've had it a while, now, and the tuning key fell out of the top of the pocket and broke some strings. I've been wanting to repair and learn from You Tube University (ha!). I can't even get started because I have NO support around here, and conversations on chat don't help a guy who's neve played harp before. I twinkled around on it some when I first got it, and it tuned up alright, but I have 4 missing strings (E, G, C, & G ascending). It's not playable that way. I saw a harp online at REVERB, but I'm starting to think that I shouldn't try to do this with no more support than I can get. I'll just try to repair this one. I just hope I don't spend too much on it. It's not very good......the sound box is like balsa wood, and I have a chip in it just from carrying it in a small case with a cloth handle. This is really a rich person's instrument. I have a nice 100 year old violin for my Celtic music that's been repaired, and it stays together fine, but these harps are SENSITIVE and high maintenance, and then they're so expensive, too. I need an email address, I guess......oh, and a publisher (for this book I just wrote). 😀

@michealdillard3176 Жыл бұрын

Promo>SM 🙋

@edhotchkin5938 Жыл бұрын

Are nylon filament strings affected by climate conditions?

@bjacksonharp Жыл бұрын

Nylon strings in general are more resistant than gut strings, but climate still affects them (more on the temperature side than humidity.) But any kind of sudden change in environment can make any type of string break.