New Strings and Tone Bars
Four autoharps that need cleaned and a few new strings, plus four glockenspiels (German for "glockenspiel").
Regular readers (all 2 of you) know that I offered to fix up a few instruments for the elementary school teacher. She dropped off the supplies, and I provided the elbow grease. Here are a few before and after pictures.
The rubber tubing that the tone bars ride on is pretty much gone - a few pieces remain. The tone bars are tarnished.
On one of the glockenspiels, I replaced the pegs that the bars go around (and over). I had one brand new set to work with, so I chose the glockenspiel that seemed in the best shape and put the set on that one. I could have fixed up the worst one, but I thought the teacher would like to have one really good one to use.
A little rubbing and polishing of the tone bars brought out a shine. I used a metal polish I happened to have laying around. It's not a great picture - the two bars on the right have been polished.
One tone bar is missing (the teacher has it) but the rest looks great, and you can see the new rubber tubing at the ends.
Another view of the glockenspiel I spent the most time on.
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Stay tuned for the beginning of summer for the J and the kids - coming soon to a blog near you.
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