It is true that an instrument intended for
high-level
professional performances, under the judgment
of
an expert public, it must guarantee first of all
that
the instrument has been built in order to avoid
any
inappropriate sounds, but all the productive
processes
we visited all even the less important, are so
refined, to
understand what means a “Salvi harp”.
We ask Gabriele Dutto, manager of the company
together with we visited the company, if the
coating
process of the instrument has only an aesthetic
function; he answered that: «the soundboard,
due to strings’tension- it can reach a carrying
capacity
of 1200 kg-tends to deform, even if the parts
needed to
built are stored in a well-ventilated and
heated room
for about 4 months. For this reason coating in
addition to meet high aesthetic requirements,
must be
elastic so that it absorbs the dimensional
changes of
the instrument and will not “break” the film».
In brief: all the instrument components are
prepared
in the joinery then they area pre-assembled
creating
a “raw harp” (as we call it), whose validity is
carefully
checked in order to guarantee the right
functioning
(the assembly of the various components is so
perfect,
that at the end it looks like a unique item).
All the components are then disassembled and
coated,
to be next assembled again to built the
“definite harp”, at
least in terms of structure, not yet tested in
its primary
function, the sound production: the specialists
of the
company (harp tuners and harpists), must do it
later.
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