Salvi Egan

About the Salvi Egan

The Egan is Salvi's largest lever harp, built around longer string lengths than the company's smaller folk harps - a deliberate choice for a bigger, more resonant tone rather than the lighter touch and easier transport of a compact lever harp. All 38 strings carry sharping levers, letting the full range be shifted a half-step rather than restricting levers to the most commonly used strings, as some cheaper harps do to cut cost.

Standing roughly 62 3/4 inches tall, the Egan uses a column-to-neck joint design Salvi describes as offering unmatched structural firmness for the size, intended to keep the frame stable under the string tension a harp this large produces. It's available in mahogany, walnut or natural maple finishes, and is generally discussed among harpists specifically as the largest, deepest-sounding option in Salvi's folk/Celtic harp range rather than a beginner instrument.

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Sound character of the Salvi Egan

As the largest of Salvi's folk harps, the Egan uses longer strings and a reinforced column/neck joint to handle the extra tension a bigger frame allows, producing a big, resonant Celtic sound with more low-end depth than Salvi's smaller folk models - explicitly at the cost of the portability those smaller harps offer.

Technical data for the Salvi Egan

The history of the Salvi Egan

Salvi Harps, an Italian maker founded by Victor Salvi in 1954 and now one of the two dominant pedal harp manufacturers alongside Lyon & Healy, built the Egan as the top of its folk-harp line specifically to give Celtic and folk players an instrument with orchestral-harp-level resonance.