The soundboard is made of spruce, Oregon pine or cedar, in 150mm to 180mm wide strips, with the grain across the table.

The soundboard of my own harp, which Gildas made a few years before he died, is made of plywood, and sounds much more resonant than the copies which were made from from it, which use pine ... You can hear it here.

Apply the same technique previously described for other harps but do not fix the soundboard yet. This should only be done when neck and pillar are finally screwed and glued. The reason is that the neck is screwed to the top of the sound box from inside. It would be impossible to do so if the soundboard were already fixed.