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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on April 23, 2018 at 10:44am

This is awesome and she's a great player.

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Permalink Reply by david tranter on April 24, 2018 at 12:25am

Wonderful instrument and playing.

Anychance of plans being available?

 David Tranter

Australia

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Permalink Reply by Eric Butler on April 24, 2018 at 2:20am

It looks like a very straight forward build.  One nice thing about harps (by definition, this is actually a lyre because of the use of a bridge), is that you can use just about any measurement for the string lengths as long as there is some compensation (neck angle) to accomodate for the string lengths.  Pretty much you could just approximate everything according to the scale of the cigar box.

I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that the hollowed and lightened neck must also be adding to the harp's overall volume - acting as an additional resonating chamber.

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Permalink Reply by Kirk on April 24, 2018 at 2:01am

So he's stopped building instruments?  :(

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Permalink Reply by Eric Butler on April 24, 2018 at 2:14am

Coolness factor is great.  But, it does somewhat beg the question as to why use a cigar box when there is such extensive woodwork already.  That aside, it sounds great....so, plus 1 for that. :)

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Permalink Reply by JL on April 24, 2018 at 3:55am

with so much extensive woodwork on the neck, fingerboard/fretboard, headstock, tailpiece, why use a cigar box for a guitar? bwahahaha

It is very cool, agreed.

so a lyre has the CBG equivelants of a headstock, nut, saddle distinct from the string anchor points, a harp has the string anchor points and saddle integrated and indistinct from each other....fascinating

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Permalink Reply by Philip Taylor on May 30, 2021 at 7:03am

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