This harp has enormous presence with a tone that is rich and powerful. (Harp Manufacturers) The Lyon & Healy Harp. Pratt The Lyon & Healy Harp Advertisements of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. 1794 Trilogy for Harp and Strings by Samuel O.
In the 1960s, Lyon & Healy introduced a smaller lever harp, the Troubadour, a 36-string harp for young beginners with smaller hands, and for casual players. Lyon & Healy Harp Serial Numbers The Lyon & Healy Harp Famous Welsh Harpists and Pennillion Singers 1890 Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bardsby Edward Jones: London. Overall: 36 3/4 in x 12 7/16 in x 5 in 93.345 cm x 31.59125 cm x 12. Lyon & Healy Prelude 38 Harp (serial number 51505) in mint condition. United States: Illinois, Chicago Measurements The new owner could have the original gilding touched up or. This semi-grand with 45 strings is a wonderful instrument with a beautiful sound and gorgeous carving. As depicted in an 1898-99 Lyon & Healy catalog, this three-quarter size ”Washburn” model guitar, item number 123-3/4, is described: “Rosewood, with Inlaid and Celluloid-Bound Edges, Top and Bottom Handsomely Colored Wood Inlaying around Sound-Hole Celluloid-Bound Finger-Board Beautiful Inlaid Stripe down the Back Best Quality Ebony Finger-Board Celluloid-Bound with Engraved Pearl Position Marks Ebony Bridge Fine Quality Patent Head Nickel-Plated.” This guitar sold for $29.40 in 1898. The serial number list for Wurlitzer harps has been lost, but the high number suggests that it was probably built in the late 1920s or early 1930s. The company also made musical instruments but is best known as a manufacturer of harps. Your instrument can be dated to around 1931 to 1935. So the first two numbers of the 4 digit serial number tells you within 2 or 3 years on either side when the harp was made. For many years Lyon & Healy averaged about 100 instruments a year. Lyon & Healy quickly expanded as a retail distributor for musical instruments. The 4 digit serial numbers started in 1910 and must have started with the number 1000 or 1001. The company was founded in 1864 by George Washburn Lyon and Patrick Joseph Healy as a music publications shop for the Boston Company of Oliver Ditson. This guitar, serial #140926, was made by Lyon & Healy of Chicago, Illinois around 1900-1905.