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Lyon & Healy Harps, Inc. is an American musical instrument manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois and is a subsidiary of Salvi Harps, but also has a layered corporate structure. Today best known for concert harps , the company's Chicago headquarters and manufacturing facility contains a showroom and concert hall .
Salvi is one of the most important manufacturers of high-quality harps. [1] About 90 employees make about 2,000 harps a year from spruce and maple wood, about half of which are concert (double action) harps, and the remaining lever and electroacoustic harps. The subsidiary Lyon & Healy employs about 135 staff in Chicago.
The Harp Factory on Lake Street is an album by the American band Gastr del Sol, released in 1995. [2] [3] It is named for Lyon & Healy's harp factory at the corner of Lake Street and Ogden Avenue, in Chicago. [4] The album contains a single 17-minute track. [5]
Victor Salvi was born into an Italian family and was the youngest child of Rodolfo Salvi and Apollonia Paoliello. Rodolfo was himself a musician and an instrument maker from Venice, who moved to the small Southern village of Viggiano, Basilicata, land of travelling musicians who brought their music and traditions all over the world, as well as known for the construction of harps.
Salzedo took a great interest in harp design, and worked with Lyon & Healy in Chicago to produce Salzedo model harps. These harps had an extra 1/8 inch spacing between notes in the middle register to reduce buzzing. Forty Salzedo harps were made from 1931 to 1954. [80]
In 1904, Lyon & Healy purchased rights to the brand Regal. Four years later, the company officially re-introduced the Regal name [1] in Chicago, establishing their factory there. Lyon & Healy set Regal up as an independent company in 1924. During its first years of existence, Regal only marketed 4-string instruments such as ukuleles and tenor ...
Pages in category "Harp makers" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Lyon & Healy; M. Morley Harps; N. Jean-Henri Naderman; P. Jean-Henri ...
Camille and Kennerly Kitt, electric harp duo, The Harp Twins, perform and arrange rock/pop on Lyon and Healy Silhouette solid body electric harps, as well as Camac electro-acoustic concert grand pedal harps. Rüdiger Oppermann performs on his self-made electric harps. Zeena Parkins plays and composes avant-garde and experimental music.