anyone else find a patterned carpet offputting?

[galen-reed]

“wooden floor … [for] gigs outside”

[eliza-morrison]

Yes, it can be very distracting. So can a neutral background the same color as the strings. An historic chapel where I’ve played many times has a black and white tiled floor which drives me crazy, it’s so distracting! So hard to see the strings! A piece of carpet in a strong solid color can be a good thing to take along with you!

[Paul and Brenda]

We take a green color bed sheet along wherever we go.

[Sally Barnes]

Aaaaaah that explains it, I took my latest grade at a different centre and played absolutey terribly compared to usual, I was on a pale cream and brown patterned carpet and I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t see my strings, I just blamed it on feeling under the weather…. thank you, I learn so much from you guys

[Angela Biggs]

The first time I played my new harp in public, we were positioned on a RED carpet. All of my C strings disappeared! Fortunately, we practiced in the church three days before performance, so I found out about it early enough to say something. The resident sound tech took a white table cover off a nearby table, draped it over a music stand, and set it behind me. Phew!

Bringing a piece of fabric with you is a fabulous idea! I’ll definitely add that to my list of things to bring when I start playing out. 🙂

[Christian Frederick]

I can remember at the beginning of playing harp in the 1980s a patterned carpet would drive me absolutely nuts. As time went on, I choose not to let the patterns distract me. Just last week I bought a rug for my music room of an animal print, and I don’t even notice it when I play the harp. So like with all things in life, we can choose to overcome obstacles in a positive way…..

[Reidun]

me too

[Reidun]

another confusing thing is to play in coloured spotlight. With the red spot, no more C’s!!! My solution was to paint black dots onto the red strings, like the ladybirds..

[Jerusha Amado]

So like with all things in life, we can choose to overcome obstacles in a positive way…..

Christian,

This is good advice.

[john-strand]

Yes – a real problem at many different jobs – early on, I played a crowded cocktail party and a lady wearing an off white dress with geometric red and black line figures came and stood by the harp – as she talked she swayed a bit and I couldn’t see anything – had to stop until she moved away –

[HBrock25]

Dear Amanda (and fellow harpists)…

Seraphim Music (http://www.seraphimmusic.com) distributes our line of “Harp Couture” accessories, including a “PerfectView Harp Mat” – it fact, it was our very first product!

[melissa-gallant]

I’ve found that using Bow Brand – Concedo gut strings on the second octave helps a lot. The strings that are normally clear are white

[David Ice]

Gosh, I want one!

[catherine-rogers]

No offense to any decorators but that sounds like one ugly carpet.

[Jessica A]

Hotel carpets are always ugly–hides the food and crap that gets on them maybe.

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