Canadian made harps are hand crafted by specialists form coast to coast with experience in the music industry. If you know of any harps made in Canada please forward the information so I can add them to the site.
Canadian Made Harps
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Timeless Instruments is dDedicated to educating people in Lutherie skills , supplying luthiers, and custom- building musicians exceptional sounding musical instruments. with ” Action like the Speed of Light “ Since 1980, David Freeman created Timeless Instruments. a one stop shop for luthiers and musicians! In 2011, His son, Seth joined the company, We offer Personalized service. Four Guitar Construction courses are taught a year, You design, construct & build, evolving and researching acoustics in unique instruments that push Sound and Playability,while maintaining Traditional Aesthetics. Products:
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Our harps are hand crafted from solid cherry, or walnut and carry a 3 year warranty on materials and workmanship, excluding strings and accidental damage. A tuning hammer and a partial string set are included with each harp. At Stanley&Stanley Harpmakers we have been building harps for 30 years. Our extensive experience as harp makers provides us with the knowledge and craftmanship required to perform major harp repairs. We have replaced many soundboards and repaired many broken harp necks over the years. Lever Regulations are also available. Products:
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Zak’s studies in graphic arts at the Niagara Institute of Technology further developed his artistic ability. His need to experiment with his materials eventually led to instrument making which includes harps made in Canada. He studied with Peter Mach, a luthier in Aylmer, Quebec. Only select aged tone woods (10 – 60 years old) are used to make the violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins and archtop guitars. Each instrument is handcrafted from broadleaf maple and Sitka spruce. Zak uses his intuition and liberally borrows from the techniques used by Stradivari and Guarneri. The varnishes he uses are developed from his own formulas. Products:
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Jules Saint-Michel knows the violin. At 78, he plays it every day and continues to make it. His workshop-boutique, member of the Economuseum network, is a place of discovery and exchange. While the luthiers work in the open workshop, musicians come to buy strings or instruments. Others entrust their violin, cello or contrabass to the luthier for repair. Still others come to restore an old instrument they sometimes inherited. From the sketch on paper to the glowing violin and harp made in Canada, all the stages of the fabrication are clearly explained. The luthier chooses carefully the wood, cuts and prepares each of the 70 pieces which are then glued. The varnishing, polishing, editing and setting stages must be completed before the violin can sing. “It takes at least 125 hours of work for a violin,” says Jules Saint-Michel, whose fame is international. In addition to making hundreds of violins and violas, Mr. Saint-Michel has also collected rare instruments. Among those exhibited are a ravanastron, an Arab rebab, a rebec, a viol of the Middle Ages, a porcelain violin and Monsieur Pointu’s violin. You can also see the instruments used in the movie The Red Violin. A very interesting showcase is devoted to Quebec luthiers, including Antoine Robichaud and Augustin Lavallée (father of Calixa Lavallée, author of the national anthem of Canada). Products:
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At Josephus Harps make all our harps and accessories in our shop in Duncan, Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. All our harps are available in Western maple, Black walnut, Mahogany, and Cherry. All are built with hand-cut, edge-glued, solid Sitka spruce sound boards for the best sound, all have tapered through-pins, brass bridge pins and brass eyelets. We have been producing Wellspring Harps since 1997, and in that time they have gained a great reputation for their compact size, beautiful sound, and affordability. We also offer 38 strings harps for the professional with two new designs, the Heritage and the Dayspring. These harps have very rich acoustics with outstanding sound projection and tonality. In small size harps, we have the Traveller and the Therapy; both are quality instruments with real sound boards that you will be proud to own and play. We also make student harps in Western maple with Baltic birch ply sound boards for rental purposes. Part of the Canadian made harps directory. Products:
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