Wind River Harps

08/14/2025

A belated congratulations to Grace English, who won First Place honors in the Open Masters division at the SHSA competition in Dublin, OH.

05/14/2025

A new curly cherry harp, ready to go to a new home. See the details at windriverharps.com/available .

02/07/2025

Couldn't resist going ahead and finishing it out. Fluorocarbon and Biocarbon strings over North Shore wire wound strings in the bottom octave.

11/08/2024

So, I thought I'd try something a bit different. The unfinished harp you are seeing is a Spiorad 34, done in Claro Walnut, with a Western Red Cedar sound board, and Osage Orange (Bois d'arc) trim. A hard oil, hand rubbed finish was applied to the wood, with no stain or tint. A collection of images can be seen at https://photos.app.goo.gl/LnNA2vUfRc4N5xL39.
When it is completed, it will have a full set of Camac Levers, and North Shore String bass wire strings. The difference, is the buyer will choose the type of strings to be used to complete the harp, fluorocarbon, biocarbon, or nylon. In addition, the buyer will be able to select between black oxide, or nickel plated, tuning and bridge pins.
For more details regarding my harps, please go to https://www.windriverharps.com.

05/15/2024

Last look before loading up for the Harp Gathering this weekend.

11/29/2023

Sandy Pereira has two selections currently offered on Apple Books using our harps for the audio selections. Here are the links:
http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6470555239
http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6470414647

‎Professional & Technical · 2023

07/24/2023

Had a great time at this year's Somerset Folk Harp Festival. Great people, and very well run event.

05/30/2023

Two new harps available: The one on the left is American Black Walnut, with a Western Red Cedar soundboard, Camac levers, and fluorocarbon strings. The harp on the right is Cherry, with a Western Red Cedar soundboard, Argent Fox Forte levers, Aquilo Biocarbon "sugar" strings, and weighs only 15.5 lbs. Go to www.windriverharps.com/available for more details.

04/04/2023

Informal poll:
All harpers have strings break, it's one of the few checks in the "Cons" column of playing a harp. What I'm curious about, is are there strings, or ranges of strings, where you have experienced a higher breakage rate. Just to kick things off, I've seen a higher rate of breakage (with Savarez fluorocarbon strings) for the C and F colored strings. They also seem to have a bit more stretch when getting a new string to hold pitch. It may have to do with the pigment embedded in the string.
On the other end of the frequency of breakage, I've never had a wire wound string break.
Feel free to chime in, I'm not going to flood your phone and email with sales promotions.

03/23/2023

1st Audio Review of the Planxty Susan D24 Double Strung Harp -

Soundclip of new Planxty Susan double strung harp by Dave Boling of Wind River Harps, with Argent Fox Forte levers and Aquila corde Sipario BioCarbon (sugar) strings

04/15/2022

First pieces cut for a double 24.