Lyon & Healy also makes smaller folk harps or lever harps (based on traditional Irish and Scottish instruments) that use levers to change string pitch instead of pedals. Today, Lyon & Healy harps are widely played by professional musicians, since they are one of the few makers of harps for orchestral use-which are known as concert harps or pedal harps. By the end of the 19th century, they manufactured a wide range of musical instruments-including not only harps, but pianos, guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles and various brass and other percussion instruments.
Healy began the company in 1864 as a sheet music shop. Today best known for concert harps, the company's Chicago headquarters and manufacturing facility contains a showroom and concert hall. is an American musical instrument manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois and is a subsidiary of Salvi Harps. But it is such a shame to see that the instrument may not survive, and they won’t have the money to repair.Lyon & Healy Harps, Inc. She performed the Susann McDonald/Linda Wood Concert Etude, Reverie, and Chorale (from Graded Recital 1) from memory, and apparently had only been working on them for two or three weeks.ĭirectly contact her teacher? Contact the harp’s owner that they rent from? All of that seems awfully like sticking my nose in. It was really sad, because she has a LOT of talent. When this conversation happened, we had all just listened to a performance where several in the 4th and 5th octaves weren’t even tuned on the right notes. Indeed, I hadn’t seen her tune once in the four days of camp, including after the harp was hauled 600 miles, and I was there before and left after her each day. When I even mentioned to him that her teacher might want to work with tuning some, he informed me that “that harp has been really stable and hasn’t needed much tuning”. I’d love to have suggested to lower the tension with original gauges, so that maybe it won’t blow up quite as soon. Apparently no one else in the family is a musician. And her father was very resistant to any help offered by anyone at the camp. Unfortunately, the 9-year old student isn’t tuning yet. Visually, I didn’t see any reason to suspect that all parts weren’t entirely original. I’m positive it had modern bass wires, and without gauging it, it looked like standard modern gauge guts. I didn’t get a look at how much the neck was pulled sideways, but there was a small crack on top of the kneeblock, and the board was pulled up a long ways. So, there’s at least one data point that #128 was in 1894. The 1894 date was engraved on the action place right next to the original purchaser’s name and city.
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