Nice. You even covered the whole retuning of a lap harp to a different key. Here's my question to you. What do you think the lowest tuning a regular lap harp can withstand without sounding off? When I first got mine, I actually tuned to d with the lowest string being d. However, I would like to hear your thoughts
The trouble with down tuning a lap harp is that there is such a short distance between to two bridges so on the lower note strings they start to sound "floppy" or sloppy and not nice at all when you go lower than D. I think what might make a difference would be to experiment with different string gauges. Might be a winter project for me. ;-)
Same. I find that the lowest tuning that it can hold is the key of d. The lowest string being a d. I have not tried e minor yet, but somehow, after a couple of weeks of not picking it up, it actually tuned itself down to e major. From f. I have tried d Minor Dorian mode, with the raised six. As in the second scale degree of c major. I have a Russian made lap harp, so that may explain the different tuning experiments that can be done. It has a word in Russian that means quail. I guess the music maker lap harps are the ones that usually stay in the key of g major, but I guess any lap harp can be tuned differently.@easylapharpmelodies it would be interesting to have a part 2 of this transposition video. You can most certainly use one of my f major lap harp videos as reference. I find that it stays in tune, a lot longer in the key of f major, though mine actually went down in pitch about a half step, the strings still stayed in tune with itself. It almost turned itself to baroque pitch, or what we know as e. As we know, baroque pitch is normally tuned a half step lower than today's a at 440 cycles. So, f major in baroque pitch would sound like today's e major. Add g major in baroque pitch, would sound like today's f sharp, or g flat.
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Nice. You even covered the whole retuning of a lap harp to a different key. Here's my question to you. What do you think the lowest tuning a regular lap harp can withstand without sounding off? When I first got mine, I actually tuned to d with the lowest string being d. However, I would like to hear your thoughts
The trouble with down tuning a lap harp is that there is such a short distance between to two bridges so on the lower note strings they start to sound "floppy" or sloppy and not nice at all when you go lower than D. I think what might make a difference would be to experiment with different string gauges. Might be a winter project for me. ;-)
Same. I find that the lowest tuning that it can hold is the key of d. The lowest string being a d. I have not tried e minor yet, but somehow, after a couple of weeks of not picking it up, it actually tuned itself down to e major. From f. I have tried d Minor Dorian mode, with the raised six. As in the second scale degree of c major. I have a Russian made lap harp, so that may explain the different tuning experiments that can be done. It has a word in Russian that means quail. I guess the music maker lap harps are the ones that usually stay in the key of g major, but I guess any lap harp can be tuned differently.@easylapharpmelodies it would be interesting to have a part 2 of this transposition video. You can most certainly use one of my f major lap harp videos as reference. I find that it stays in tune, a lot longer in the key of f major, though mine actually went down in pitch about a half step, the strings still stayed in tune with itself. It almost turned itself to baroque pitch, or what we know as e. As we know, baroque pitch is normally tuned a half step lower than today's a at 440 cycles. So, f major in baroque pitch would sound like today's e major. Add g major in baroque pitch, would sound like today's f sharp, or g flat.