Happy new year everyone! I wanted to weigh in with my 2 cents on the color coding. Around here a lot of folks are using something that is a paint pen -...
And a truly happy and melodic new year to all! Yes, Ardival only painted the string ends on the left of mine too, but as Janet Kurnick says, any light issues...
Happy New Year everybody! Janet, the question regarding just what the harpers played while they (or the reacaire) recited is a big hole in our knowledge of ...
As for the reciting while playing.... That was in my original plans when I started, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm still trying to play well enough and...
... Yep, that's pretty much what I do, but I *do* read music so I start out with playing it from the dots, and try memorise by repetition... I *never* look at...
Not a wire-harper, but Robin Williamson is one of the masters of this. I have done it a bit, too, modeling on Robin's techniques. To hear a version of him...
... Chris> So I'm with Janet. Does anyone do this? How does it work? Chris> and what sorts of things do you do? I've seen Ellen Tepper do it with an A. A....
I use the harp on a regular basis to accompany storytelling. I have two stories on my album "Songs and Stories" accompanied by harp. Also, I started reciting...
Joanna Mell
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Jan 2, 2005 12:59 am
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It's true that Triplett builds their bigger wire strung harps with wider spacing, but I found this to be an asset, since the spacing was still narrower than my...
Joanna Mell
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Jan 2, 2005 1:08 am
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-I am reciting and playing with both folklore and rhyme. The rhyme I tend to speak some of and sing some of. I design a basic simple melody and varient b part ...
Kimberly, I had two students a married couple (HI MICHAEL) who studied both nylon and wire. They expressed to me that they found the two styles worked against...
Hi all, I, too, suffer from this wire/nylon dissonance. I know this has come up on the list before, but I'm wondering how list-members who play both types of...
Donna Goodin
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Jan 2, 2005 2:55 pm
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... Hi Kimberley Don't dispair regarding costs of a wire harp - have a chat with Don Peddle of Random Sound Music - He makes a wonderful 22 wire strung travel...
... This is all quite true, and the advice is very good... *except* if you have your heart set on playing wire, and can't afford to buy a wire strung harp...
I tend to compare learning both wire and nylon techniques simultaneously to learning to knit and crochet simultaneously. One does have to focus on the two...
Keep in mind that many historical harps were probably struck with nails so don't think that playing nylon with nails is wrong or strange. If you dislike the...
Thanks, Peter, that's something to keep in mind. I do find the sound of nails on nylon to be sort of harsh,, but maybe it is something that one gets used to. ...
Donna Goodin
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Jan 3, 2005 3:11 am
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I try to play blind, and I didn't colour my strings. I have a Limerick lap harp (by musikits, but slightly altered by an instrument maker) wchich has nylon...
... A-HA !!! That explains it then ! ;-) I'm really pretty good at crochet... or at least I was, a number of years ago when I learned to crochet after...
Donna, You can play nylon with nails. There are many who do that. So you would just learn to sound the string with your nail. You can play wire with fingertips...
... I use nails on both, but maybe this is the distinction: My "other harp" is strung with gut, not nylon. It definitely sounds better with nails that pads...
... Eric and I do recitation/playing where he recites the poem while I play the harp. Only in English (so far) I haven't been able to convince him to study ...
Hi all, Thanks, Cynthia and Jacqueline. Having always played nylon without nails, maybe it's just something I need to get used to. To me--with all due respect ...
Donna Goodin
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Jan 3, 2005 8:38 pm
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... So, that means you play left hand treble - right hand bass, right? Now that I'm using this "new" holding-position (although it seems more "old",...
I use nails on my gut strung medieval and bray harps and it sounds great. I also used to play with nails on my nylon strung neo-celtic harps (as well as on...
I am new to the wire harp and purchased a used one via mail after hearing it played over the phone. It sounded beautiful, but after receiving it I was very...
Oh, now I'm confused...I was under the apparently mistaken impression that gut strings should not be played with the nails or the strings will shred....
They probably wear faster (they develop whiskers), but only in the treble after about a year in my experience. Ed Peters ... impression ... strings will ... ...
Helen posted this to the Harplist regarding a solution to the problem of loose tuning pins on her harp. (From: Helen <Helen.Stephens@h...> Date: Mon Dec 13,...
