Lovely song and beautifully played. I don't know anything about playing harp; can someone explain to me what the purpose of changing the position of the pegs along the top is?
Each string must be tuned individually and can be tuned according to the key signature of the piece, or to whatever the harpist prefers. On her harp each string has a lever, and when the lever is down the string is in its resting position according to how it was tuned. For example, one string might be tuned to B-flat, & another string F natural. When playing a song, sometimes there's a brief "step up" that needs to be played. By lifting the lever, it puts a little more tension on the string, thereby making that note a 1/2 step sharper. So that B-flat becomes B natural, and that F natural becomes F-sharp. Putting the lever back down puts the string back to the natural tone it was tuned in. In simplest terms, it's like briefly having a "black key" on a piano, relevant to how the harp is tuned. The "pegs" you asked about are above the lever, and it is what the top of the string is affixed to. When stringing a harp, one end is tied by a special knot under the soundboard to hold it in place. The string goes up through the soundboard, alongside the lever knobs, and through the hole that little peg where it is cranked on by a tuning key. As a side note: harp strings are in the same order as how we generally recognize piano keys: C,D,E, F, G, A, B, C. The red strings are C, and the blue strings are F - that's how we know where we are at on the harp, lol! The levers on her harp are color-coordinated to the string so as to make that transition easier to see. Hope this helps!
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Lovely song and beautifully played. I don't know anything about playing harp; can someone explain to me what the purpose of changing the position of the pegs along the top is?
Each string must be tuned individually and can be tuned according to the key signature of the piece, or to whatever the harpist prefers. On her harp each string has a lever, and when the lever is down the string is in its resting position according to how it was tuned. For example, one string might be tuned to B-flat, & another string F natural. When playing a song, sometimes there's a brief "step up" that needs to be played. By lifting the lever, it puts a little more tension on the string, thereby making that note a 1/2 step sharper. So that B-flat becomes B natural, and that F natural becomes F-sharp. Putting the lever back down puts the string back to the natural tone it was tuned in. In simplest terms, it's like briefly having a "black key" on a piano, relevant to how the harp is tuned. The "pegs" you asked about are above the lever, and it is what the top of the string is affixed to. When stringing a harp, one end is tied by a special knot under the soundboard to hold it in place. The string goes up through the soundboard, alongside the lever knobs, and through the hole that little peg where it is cranked on by a tuning key. As a side note: harp strings are in the same order as how we generally recognize piano keys: C,D,E, F, G, A, B, C. The red strings are C, and the blue strings are F - that's how we know where we are at on the harp, lol! The levers on her harp are color-coordinated to the string so as to make that transition easier to see. Hope this helps!