Hi Onita! I don’t have an iPad, but I do use drop box as a place to put recordings of my music that I want to share with others. Sometimes recordings are just too big to email, and I have found dropbox very useful. If you have your recording on your computer, you just post it to dropbox, and then invite the people you want to view/listen to it. It is very simple, and up to a certain amount of memory, it is free. check it out.

There are other threads here about apps for ipad. Some personal favorites:

For sheet music: forScore, with the airturn BT-105 foot pedal for hands-free turning. Other popular music library apps would include Unreal Book, and the apps from musicnotes.com and hal leonard.

For tuning: cleartune, Peterson iStrobosoft.

You can record in garageband, but I find it easier to use a program not so much designed for compiling loops. I use a basic recorder like iTalk Recorder for practice recording and Multitrack DAW for serious recording.

There are also tons of theory apps, teaching apps, ear training apps, flash card apps, etc. if you teach.

Incidentally, you can scan with the ipad. There are plenty of apps for that, but I don’t care for the quality of the results so I prefer to use a regular flatbed scanner.

If your main computer is a mac running a recent version of OS X you can create a signature in Preview and use that to sign documents, so no need for all the scanning. Go to Preview>Preferences>Signatures. You write a signature on a piece of paper one time, hold that up to the mac’s camera, and preview keeps it on file to use for signing PDF files in the future.

Even in windows your scanner should give you the option to save the scan as a pdf. Just print the contract, sign it, and then scan the signed contract as a pdf.

Hmmmmmmm. Wow! I’m surprised you’ve never heard of Cleartune!
It’s a tuner app for your harp!
I have it on both my iPhone and my iPad.
Do any of these ideas help?
Maybe you should search for Harp related apps in the iTunes app store or Google it
Or you could always try YouTube
Just type in harp related apps for the iPad
Good luck!

Okay! I feel a little bit better about that description.
I’ve still not heard of that app before.
Maybe my ideas might be helpful somewhere else!
Hmmmmmmmm oh well!

Given that paid apps are very rarely more than a dollar or two, with $5 being considered “expensive”, it’s not too onerous to invest in some of the paid ones. For one thing, the ads on the free apps use up bandwidth, sometimes quite a bit of it. After all, it’s not like having to shell out $600 for photoshop or anything. Just saying I wouldn’t like my ipad much or find it terribly useful if I limited myself to free apps.

E NB, Blue Note flash cards, for one, although I can’t get the latest update to display bass clef notes properly, so tell them to read the latest reviews. Note Perfect, Right Note Lite. Karajan is a popular ear training app, although I personally don’t love it and it’s expensive as apps go –$15. Ear Trainer, the goodEar series, there are so many. Lots of them have free versions you can use as a trial to see if you think they’re worth the money.

Thanks Barbara!

Onita, I know how you feel. I tried searching for apps to do the things I wanted, and was deluged by choice. So how to sift through and work out which ones are useful, and which ones are merely said to be useful by their creators reviewing under different name? Ask Harp Column Forumites. As you say, they’re a wonderful, knowledgable and generous bunch.