The Chicago Harp That Rules the World - How to make a $100,000 harp

For 130 years, Lyon & Healy’s unassuming factory next to the L in West Town has produced ornate instruments considered the best of their kind.

"keep in mind that someone will eventually pay many thousands of dollars — in some cases, more than $100,000 — for just one of the instruments being crafted inside. Or consider that members of some of the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic, to name just two, play them. That John Coltrane was so enamored he bought one. That the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has three in its permanent collection...

For 130 years, Lyon & Healy’s unassuming factory next to the L in West Town has produced ornate instruments considered the best of their kind.

"keep in mind that someone will eventually pay many thousands of dollars — in some cases, more than $100,000 — for just one of the instruments being crafted inside. Or consider that members of some of the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic, to name just two, play them. That John Coltrane was so enamored he bought one. That the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has three in its permanent collection...