Leonard Williams wrote: "...Since the harp strings are not stopped (except on rare occasions), would the string need to be perfectly true? ..."
I haven't given the matter any rigorous thought, but I've assumed any string would have to be fairly uniform throughout its vibrating length to produce a good tone. Otherwise, the subdivisions of the string length which produce any particular harmonic might be out of tune with each other. David Cameron To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
