Rock Maple                              

 When Rock Maple is used in building a sound box, it produces a full-bright, open sound,  with a rich ringing tone. It has a beautiful clean clarity of sound, with full ringing overtones and brightness of tone-color. A Maple harp will fill a good sized room with rich ringing sound with out using any amplification.

The color can vary quite a bit, from silver-white, with fiddle-back silver -grey bands of color and movement. To a more varied warm honey golden-silver, with varied grains and figures of lighter and darker steaks of color all mixed together. Rock Maple is a heavier than Walnut or Cherry, but is also much stronger, and thus can be used in thinner pieces,  for structural parts of your harp, thus helping to balance the weight of this wood, with it`s amazing sound production and volume.


Here are some pictures of the many custom harps I have created over the years, from Rock Maple  wood.

Harps Shown above:  On the left, 31 bronze strings, and a full set of Loveland levers. Carvign detial of 8-red laser Laser Harp. On the right is a 28 nylon string "Winged Pegasus in flight" harp.