#Lyon and Healy

[theeleventhsignofthezodiac]

Unknown Photographer

Martin Guitars - Display window 1934

Display window featuring Martin guitars, mandolins and ukuleles. Lyon & Healy, Chicago circa 1934.

[charpnatl]

A little taste of my disease

[whiteshipnightjar]

Shall we talk about how Joanna played her own ‘Prince William’ harp at the Spring Recital? How she played us the songs she’s composed on that harp which makes it so extra special?

[thebutcher-5]

Shark Tale

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo tornati a parlare di un horror, un horror molto particolare e diretto da uno dei miei registi preferiti ossia John Carpenter. Il film in questione è Vampires. Jack Crow è un cacciatore di vampiri che con il suo gruppo agisce in Nuovo Messico. Un giorno trovano un covo di vampiri e li uccidono tutti tranne il Master, colui che…

[mozartbachtoven]

A romantic harp designed by Lyon & Healy in 1919, the Style 11 is characterized by a classic Art Nouveau motif of fluid vertical lines, flowers and vine tendrils which are hand-carved into the Hard Maple column, base and feet. The harp is hand-gilded with 23+ karat gold leaf and burnished to highlight the intricacies of the hand-carved wood.

Soft floral decoration accents the extended soundboard which also features a double Rosewood inlay along the edges.

[composerinprogress]

Hey if that background is your picture what kind of harp is that??? i’m a harpist so i always get so excited when i see one :)

It's a chicago lyon and healy! Belongs to my girlfriend, @thelostdivine

[i-love-guitars]

1912 Lyon&Healy

[thewarmestplacetohide]

Dread by the Decade: Mad Love

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★★★½

Plot: When her husband's hands are mangled in an accident, a woman seeks help from a doctor who's fixated upon her.

Review: An effectively unsettling tale of obsession and early body horror that, admittedly, forgets a subplot or two along the way.

Source Material: Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard Year: 1935 Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological Horror, Body Horror Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 8 minutes

Director: Karl Freund Writers: John L. Balderston, Guy Endore, P.J. Wolfson, Florence Crewe-Jones Cinematographers: Chester A. Lyons, Gregg Toland Editor: Hugh Wynn Composer: Dimitri Z. Tiomkin Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden

Story: 3/5 - Its ratcheting tension makes up for some issues concerning unanswered questions and a somewhat rushed ending.

Performances: 4/5 - Lorre is an interesting mix of pitiable and unhinged, and Drake is especially likable as the tale’s heroine.

Cinematography: 4.5/5 - Great expressionist-esque work.

Editing: 4/5

Music: 4/5 - There’s barely any save for a few classic pieces, but they fit well.

Sets: 4/5 - As with the prior adaptation of this story, The Hands of Orloc, the train wreck set is of particular note.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 4.5/5 - I loved Dr. Gogol (Lorre)’s bizarre, metal disguise.

Trigger Warnings:

Stalking and gendered violence

Mild violence

[garys-classic-guitars]

Rare and wonderful sounding Washburn Shrine Ukulele

[retrofret]

Just arrived a parlor-size Washburn Style 115 Flat Top Acoustic made in 1908 Chicago! It comes in a slightly later period hard shell case. - (Link in profile). - Back when C. F. Martin & Co. were a small shop building a few hundred guitars a year, Lyon & Healy in Chicago were sending thousands out of them into the world. The best and most expensive of these were branded Washburn, and most at the time would have agreed that --apart from a genuine Martin -- Washburns were the best that could be had. They were certainly the best promoted; Lyon & Healy were innovators in marketing as much as instrument building. Still their products were very much the standard of the day, and 100= years ago Washburn was one of the top prestige instrument brands in America. - - - - #washburn #vintagewashburnguitar #washburnstyle115 #vintagewashburn #parlorguitarsofinstagram #vintageparlorguitar #guitarlove (at Retrofret Vintage Guitars) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdjWbiuOrk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[charpnatl]

A taste of my depravity

[harps-for-days]

Okay, I gotta do this. Wanna gush about harps with me?

You mention orchestra so I assume you play pedal harp. How many harps do you own? What are they (Lyon & Healy, Aoyama etc.) & how many strings (I'm assuming at least one of yours is 46 or 47)? A lot of pedal harp players start on lever harp but barely touch it after they transition to pedal so do you still play lever harp in addition to your pedal harp--or some other kind of harp (wire-strung, Paraguayan, electric etc.)--or are you a strict classical pedal harp player?

Do your harps have names?

Do you mostly just play in orchestra or do you also play solo? Who are your favourite composers for harp and do you listen to any harpists on Spotify? What are your favourite genres/styles to play?

Omg I'm ALWAYS down. So yeah! I have a pedal harp, but I just got a lever harp as well just for fun lol. My pedal harp is a Lyon and Healy Style 100 Semi Grand built in 1973, and I named her Penelope Antonia♡ She is my greatest love. I have not named the lever harp yet. It is a Camac Isolde. I am planning on buying a proper concert grand soon, though. I'll be getting a Salvi Minerva. The Minerva will be my sixth harp that ive bought in my seven years of playinggg 😶 I started on lever but kept selling them as I moved up in skill and everything so now my sights are set on mastering ✨️both✨️. (I'm realizing how chaotic my answering is gonna be 😂). I was strictly classical, but now that I'm working with musicology more and am planning a career that isn't orchestra centric, I feel more able to do whatever I want. Right now, I'm still doing a lot of orchestral work, and I don't solo a lot which is 100% fine by me. I'm not a huge fan of soloing tbh. But when I do I LOVEEEEEEEE playing impressionistic or romantic pieces. The 19th and early 20th centuries are MY TIME (for music). Omg i love meeting other harpists you gotta tell me about your harps now PLS

[star-studded-whales]

another mutual with a harp?! I am spoiled^-^

What kind of harp, maker (Lyon Healy, Dusty Strings etc.), number of strings? What style/genres do you like to play?

Ah! I rented a Dusty Strings for the longest time. It was a Ravenna 34 (34 strings lever harp.) I'm in between places right now so I'm saving up for a brand new one. I'm really into Scottish and Irish folk music and I also compose some of my own pieces. I also love anything that sounds dark and haunting, but I'm known to enjoy some Bach as well. I've never actually met another harp player, so this is exciting for me!

[ukuleleoftheday]

Lyon & Healy American Conservatory Bell Tiple Ukulele

[exploring-the-past]

Lyon & Healy. 1891. Catalogue of Musical Merchandise, Chicago.

[mywifeleftme]

185: Mary Lattimore // At the Dam

At the Dam Mary Lattimore 2016, Ghostly (Bandcamp)

I was having some trouble focusing enough to start writing about At the Dam, so I decided to listen to the album while taking a long walk around my neighbourhood at night. At the Dam is a series of solo pieces played on a Lyon & Healy Style 30 pedal harp, a $30,000 instrument that’s likely taller and heavier than Lattimore herself (and no doubt a nightmare to tour with). She uses loops and delay* to add fractal new branches to the imagery of bare and spindly trees her playing conjures in my mind. The titles (“Otis Walks in the Woods,” Ferris Wheel, January” etc.) are evocative in a generalized way, but I haven’t done any hunting to learn whether Lattimore’s divulged any specific backstory for them.

To me, the album feels like the soundtrack to an experience that’s restful on its face, but ultimately brittle—a middle-aged academic working on Spinoza becomes entangled with one of her students, say, or an insular Hutterite religious community is shaken by an act of violence and one of the kids is gay or something. The music isn’t foreboding as such, but its calmness is the product of so much motion in her fingers and the mechanisms of the pedals, the shivers of reverberant echoes, that it feels especially vulnerable to disruption. Walking through the darkness down the calm streets and residential alleys of my neighbourhood with At the Dam in my ears, the world felt abundant and clear—and on the verge of collapse.

— * This is going to shock you, but I know as much about using effects on acoustic instruments as I do about my father (not much), so I made another call to MWLM’s richly remunerated Gear Tsar Haakon (they just bought a house with their residuals from the Tweens review) to help me understand what Lattimore’s doing technically: MWLM: what am I looking at here:

is that a looper in her lap? it sounds like she’s something to add a bunch of reverb/delay to what she’s playing, so is the harp being amplified somehow? did she put pickups on it or something? h: that is indeed a *classic* Line6 DL-4 Delay/Loope. so yeah, her harp probably has built-in mics and she’s running it through the D-4 for delay. the reverb sound is probably just the natural reverb of the church. MWLM: so this is the harp she generally uses; doesn’t look electroacoustic? h: might be an aftermarket kit then. or there’s just a mic hidden somewhere. And there you have it 185/365