Lesson n° 1
TOP-ARM FOREPILLAR SOUNDBOX FEET SOUNDBOARD STRINGS TUNING PEGS
By clicking on the harp, you'll discover the various parts of the instrument.
The soundboard, also called belly, the most sensitive part to temperature variations
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The Top-arm, or Harmonic curve, where the tuning pegs are fixed
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The forepillar, which may be decorated.
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The Feet, which make the harp stable.
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The soundbox, where you can replace broken strings
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C strings are colored in red, and F strings in blue. By clicking on the different strings, you'll discover a full octave.
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The string is attached to the top-arm by a tuning peg. The levers stretches a string further, and changes it in sharp or flat: here, the up lever on an E flat string represents a natural E; the harp tuned in C major, without any flat or sharp, has the E, A, B levers up. Thus when they are down, the harp has the E, A and B flat.
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C D E F G A B C D E F G E normal TUNING PEGS LEVERS