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"Partial repairs of the soundboard are virtually impossible and definitely impractical. Incorporating a new soundboard into an old body is also extremely difficult and not recommended if your main goal is the long-term musicality of the instrument. So, the usual repair, like the failed neck, is complete replacement with a new body. For a musician, this is absolutely necessary, for a conservator thinking of the long-term history of the object, this is obviously horribly invasive. A fifty-year-old harp will often have had one or both of these elements replaced which means up to two thirds of the original structure, and major areas of decoration are completely gone."
https://www.conservation-design.com/the-conservation-of-historic-irish-harps