![]() Then he became a machinist in and around Chicago, even helping to make torpedos for a time. "When our government contract was filled, I was out of work. "They said no, but how would I like to work at regulating harps?" I went to Lyon & Healy harp factory in Chicago to ask if they had a machinist's job," he recalled. Ready for anything, Barco took the job, and he's been at it ever since. "For an Illinois farm boy, I've gone from the ridiculous to the sublime," he laughed. By no stretch a musician himself, he just likes the mechanics of harps though he does like some pops music, and feels the harp is well suited to it, especially the amplified harp, which he said makes an "OK" sound. "Working on harps has sort of brought my life all together, making use of both my mechanical aptitude, and my artistic bent," he said.īarco is a talented wood carver and enjoys doing an especially artistic job, like his recent reconditioning of a 50-year-old harp in striking gold and cobalt blue. ![]() He admired also a purple and gold special order that Salvi Harp Co. "I have in mind to sometime sculpt a special post," he said. He makes his headquarters in Woodland Hills, near Los Angeles, which has a concentration of harps because they are used a lot in studio music but "five harpists do 90 percent of the studio work.
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