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1 A chromatic electronic tuner. 2 Various strings used on harps, lyres, dulcimers, psaltries, lyres and kotos. Nylon strings (with anchoring beads), brass and music wires, and copper wound strings with nylon floss core. |
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3 Various grommets used on harp soundboards and on some other instruments as an alternative to hitch pins. 4 Brass bridge pins for Paraguayan harps (2), and standard harp brass bridge pins with groove (4) for Celtic metal-strung harps and non-pedal concert style harps. 5 Sharping levers (raises the pitch half a tone). 6 Tapered and untapered (with thread) tuning pins, brass and nickel plated steel. There is also an untapered brass pin with thread. 7 Tapered steel harp tuning pins, black oxide coated. The top one is a nickel plated zither pin used on mall harps and many small instruments. 8 Brass bridge-top rods for hammered dulcimers and some lyres and psalteries. |
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9 Various tuning keys. 10 Tapered reamers; sizes #4 and #5 for harp tuning pins. 11 Hammered dulcimer hitch pin. |
Photos by David Reid 2007