Behind the showroom
A bench behind the shop
Most places that sell harps do not build them. We do both, in the same building in Osborne Park, which means the people who put an instrument together are the people who will still be looking after it in twenty years.
What happens here
Sanderson harps are cut, bent, strung and voiced on these benches. The necks are drilled here, the arms are profiled here, and the timber is racked against the wall until it is wanted.
The same bench does the work that comes after a sale: regulation, restringing, lever adjustment, repairs, and making a part that cannot be bought. A harp bought here does not have to be crated up and sent across the country when something needs doing to it.
Why it matters when you are buying
A harp is a machine with a few thousand kilos of string tension in it, and it moves. It needs regulating, it needs restringing, and eventually something needs fixing. Buying from a shop with its own workshop means that is a phone call rather than a freight quote.
We look after instruments we did not sell, too. If you have a harp that has not been regulated in years, bring it in and we will tell you what it needs.
Who is on the bench
George Lyall
Harpmaker
Builds our own instruments by hand at the Osborne Park workshop.
Lilli Feske
Harpist and technician
Plays them and regulates them. Usually the one who answers when you call.
Something needs looking at?
Regulation, a broken string, a lever that will not hold, a crack you are worried about. Send a photograph and tell us what the harp is and roughly how old it is, and we will tell you what is involved before you bring it across town.
The instruments built here are the Sanderson range.