Though modern playing techniques have evolved around the tapered pin, they could just as easily have arisen around a micro-thread pin. If the type of micro-thread pins available today were available during the historically traditional periods for harps, it is doubtful tapered pins would ever have been used. When installed correctly on a harp, micro-thread pins rarely strip-out and they are also less expensive. The string wraps on the left side and the end of the Pin. All Harpsicle Harps come with a tuning wrench, strap buttons.
A $60,000 Steinway is made with micro-thread pins. The installation of zither pins removes much less wood from the neck of the harp and the friction propagated by a micro-thread is inherently more mechanically stable than that of a wedge drastically reducing the splitting force on the harmonic arch. Tapered Harp Tuning Pins are a cylindrical wedge shape which is set in all the way through the arch. Some of the most respected harp makers include Salvi, Lyon & Healy, Venus, Aoyama.
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Piano makers, who build instruments which endure under much greater string tension than even harps, laugh at the idea that a tapered pin might be a better mechanical solution. Included for free with the harp are a Lyon& Healy blue transport cover, a beautiful wood stool, and a tuning key.
I am not certain whether they made pianos or had them made for them. Our lutherie builds our Harpsicle® Harp line and some of our Rees double harps and our Morgan Meadows Rees Concert Line Harp with micro-threaded pins. Lyon & Healy was a music store in Chicago, which still exists as a world-class manufacturer of harps. There is an opinion in the harp community that micro-thread zither pins are somehow an inferior pin.
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