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Hi Guys/Girls, I am new to the wire harp and have several questions to consult you: I am thinking of getting a lap size wire harp and am wondering if the wire...
Dear Chrysolitelck, I realise it might appear that wire strung harps are limited without levers but it isn't really the case. I think you will find the kind of...
Elizabeth, First of all, welcome. There is a wealth of information here and I have loved all the stuff I have learned. As to your questions: Of my three wire...
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wikipedia,the free online encyclopedia has information on the harp at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp .jonathan st.trhomas ... Ahhh...imagining that...
... Welcome! You ask some very good questions in your message. Regarding your questions which I've clipped above, you can get some ideas on lever-free playing...
The other day someone was visiting me and saw my lap harp. She asked me to play something for her. I picked out a song that I often play from memory and...
... Carol, I make mistakes all the time. The trick is to recover from them! Just remember that your audience doesn't know exactly which note you were supposed...
I not only play in public, but I just raised my fees, and I make occasional mistakes. I've got two words for you: obscure repertoire. Nobody knows what my...
Me? I never make mistakes. Never. Not a one. I have played in public in one guise or another for more than 40 years and I have never made a mistake. Umm.. ok.....
Hello hello. I had a similar problem recently. I play for weddings. Usually about 50 a year. I play on automatic pilot playing things I know well. No problem,...
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I'm really lousy on harp, although I play a few other instruments - but I have absolutely paralysing stage-fright. And mistakes are part of my repertoire,...
... might end ... when you ... Super Chicken? If you can play the tune that opened that program on your harp , You are a brave man . On the mistake question....
... I'm with you, Robert. Never, not once! :-) Oh, no, of course I make mistakes. We all do. The trick is to just keep going. Don't change a thing, act...
Wot fun! Though there's one wee mistake - she certainly appeared a few times at the Edinburgh Harp Festival, and greatl enlivened it - dunno about her ...
Funny how we all say the same thing! Thanks, Pete, for fessing up to getting stage fright on the harp - it's strange, I play more other instruments than I care...
Heheh.. it's good that I sing so loud... So my trick is: Pokerface. Definetely. Second trick: I try to look my best at paid gigs. What I will not be able to...
I agree that playing simple songs for an audience, even a friend or teacher, can produce stress and mistakes. My teacher, who is relaxed and experienced in...
I came across a new harp website today. I'd never heard of them before, but I'm kind of interested in the plucked psaltery they make. They have some movie...
... Carol, it also looks and sounds to me as if the player is not damping. However, I don't play the psaltery myself, so I can't be certain. The resonance of...
I am materializing from the background to announce that just a couple of weeks ago, right before a trip, I received my new wire strung Stoney End Brittany. It...
I know someone with the biggest psaltery in the world! 35 steel strings and about 5 feet tall that's played standing up like a bass, bowed or plucked. Looks...
I'm supposed to play from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Sunday, the 13th, at the Fairmont Mission Inn in Sonoma, for their Mother's Day breakfast/brunch. I'm so ill...