Just wanted to tell you about a great opportunity for all musicians Bam Bam Slam is a new online video talent contest that has an "Instrument Solo" and "Rock...
Does anyone own a Stoney End Wire Stung Clairseach? If not has anyone had the chance to hear it or play it? I am interested in the quality and the sound. Would...
Does anyone have a Dreamsinger wire harp? Tell me about it good and bad. I just can't afford a Triplett. You can answer off-line. Mary [Non-text portions of...
Dear Mary, I've been through what you're going through now. It's awfully hard to figure out what you might want as the range is so wide and its such a big ...
Well since no one else has posted yet about Irish Harp school... ...was another brilliant Summer School...personal highlights for me was Ann Heymans...
It's been almost a week since I got home, so my mind's settled and I can write about my thoughts on the Scoil na gClairseach 2006. I know that this year I've...
Hi Mary, My harp is a Dreamsinger (you can see her at my web site, www.caera.info). I have the middle size one, 26 strings, in Cherry wood. Mine has great ...
I just stumbled across this carved wooden wall hanging on ebay, in which the craftsman took the care to use the Queen Mary's surface ornamentation: how sweet...
Folks, A question... I am wondering what folks views/experience is reference use of F natural or sharp...in terms of musical effects and in relation to...
Well, I tune my harps with the F's sharp not because of Bunting but because that's where the music and my harps led me to. My first harp was originally tuned...
Seems like a lot of "Celtic" (yes, I know the generic term is not precise and often sloppily applied) music tends these days to be in the key of D or G (two or...
I'm coming from an amateur early music background, with barely enough music theory to be dangerous. I've never seen any problem in playing music written in one...
... Really good question. A friend of mine, a singer, suggested we're in G because that is the most universally friendly key for people to sing in. Most...
[Gosh, I hate the new "beta" email format - can't figure out how to trim my posts!] Anyway, as someone who is actually paid to sing on occasion, my harp is...
... I sing while playing my harp and it's tuned in G major most of the time - I'm to lazy toi retune ;) But I'll have to start doing it in some time......
... I was watching the show "Celebrity Duets" on TV last night (I know, I should be ashamed to admit I actually watch the Idiot Box more than is good for me)....
... Does TV broadcast reliably in the same pitch as the original performance? I remember hearing a rumor that they speed up some shows so they can squeeze in...
Hello, John-Paul. Personally, my experience tends to be like Cynthia's, but in the opposite direction: I wound up with several harps with the intention of...
It really depends on your natural range. The "standard" ranges are: Soprano: C4-A5 Mezzo soprano: A3-F5 Alto: F3-D5 Tenor: B2-G4 Baritone: G2-E4 Bass: E2-C4 ...
In a show that goes directly from music to dialogue without camera cuts, it would be challenging to change pitch much without compromising sound quality or...
A witcher wire harp on ebay, not mine; and ending tomorrow. http://cgi.ebay.com/J-Witcher-Trinity-College-Style-Harp_W0QQitemZ200026589721 Dixee Peterson...
... I apologize, I don't think I explained myself very well in my earlier message. The broadcaster would be *inadvertently* changing the pitch, not doing it on...
... This is a really funny comment to me, because my piano teacher told me that people prefer playing in flats instead of sharps. I've always found that I'd...
My nylon strung harp has 3 levers - F#, C# and B flat. The B string is tuned to natural with the lever on - that means if I get a piece in F I take the lever...
Hi Val, Hi All - Val wrote - ... Irish dance music uses the keys of D and G a lot, also A and sometimes C. Rarely anything else. Airs, and songs especially,...
... J.S. Bach demonstrated the usage of well-tempered tuning in "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier" (The Well Tempered Clavier), a collection of preludes and fugues...
Greetings all. Scottish pipes in D? Hmm - it all depends which pipes you mean, but the great Highland, and usually many smallpipes too, are based on their own...
All I know is that my harp(s) sound better - and incidentally louder - when they're in the tuning that they like. I supposed it's the way they were designed...
It's been a fascinating discussion about the history of tuning and modes. I've known about the vagaries of equal temperment since before I took up harp - I...
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