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JOHN KOVAC HARPS by DAVY C
Affordable Paraguayan-Styled Folk Harps, Kits & Plans!
Whether you desire an entry-level harp as a student, perhaps, as a harpist looking to upgrade from a tiny, portable or cardboard harp or, are looking for your Forever-Harp, you can find one here, just for you!
"You can play virtually any type of music on these harps, from classical, pop, Celtic, hymns, folk, country, blues, jazz, Latin, whatever." - Maestro John G. Kovac, Harpist & Harp-Maker, Harpmaking Made Simple
** We also make REPAIRS to, or REPLACEMENT PARTS for ALL Kovac harps. **
Harp Kits * Books * Plans * Accessories & Hardware * DVDs * Music * Strings
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Professional Reviews:
Maestro John G. Kovac: "Just a triangle with some strings!"
"John Kovac's approach to harp making is direct, cheerful, and simple... Building a harp of his design doesn't require a lot of time or woodworking skills. The brilliant sound of these harps rivals the best that can be found." - John Lozier, Harper, and Harpmaker - https://www.harpingforharmony.org/
"John Kovac's gift is his ability to simplify harp making; making the construction of this most difficult instrument a possibility for many more people." - James Jones, Master Luthier - https://www.jamesjonesinstruments.com/
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John G. Kovac's Harp Making Tradition
Maestro John G. Kovac
November 1945 to July 2022
World-Beloved Harpist, Harp Maker, Inventor & Mentor
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Paraguayan Folk Harps have many advantages when compared to common North American folk lever harps.
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Passing the John G. Kovac Harpmaking Legacy on to a New Generation
The Legacy Continues...
"I loved John Kovac's easy DIY harp making approach and the sweet musical tones of his Paraguayan harps so much, when he retired, I bought his company."
- Davy j Clark, Harp Maker & Clinical Harpist, July 2020
A Small Glimpse Into Making A Harp
We take rough-sawn lumber, finish-mill it at our shop, create the components and put them all together before creating the new harps strings & finally adding the strings. Then, we tune the harp, over & over & over again(!) until its tuning stabilizes.
Did you know, even for this smaller 26 String harp it uses well over 310 components, parts & pieces?
Did you also realize its Paulownia-wood Soundboard is not one piece of lumber but is made of many smaller sections of finely milled, very thin yet, superb tone-wood all connected together as one unit?
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