Hello,

There is a lady here that wants to start learning the harp with me. She might be 45 or so.

I have worked with a lot of older people with great results and I do enjoy working with people so enthusiastic about the harp. The

problem is that she intends to abandon her own career as she wants to become a professional harpist. She said she does not have

much money to treat it as a hobby (her family wouldn’t support this idea), and she really wants to speed up things to get all time she

already lost.

I don’t know what to tell her, since I think her chances to become a professional harpist and be able to compete for an orchestra place

or a school for teaching is very remote in my opinion. But, I might be wrong. I would like to listen to people that might have been in

this situation, both teachers and students. I hope, I can come back to her to tell her we will work together to make it real. But, can

anyone there convince me of it first!

Thank you,

Angelica