Harp Naming

[Philippa mcauliffe]

Maybe its the people who name their cars who also name their harps?

[jessica-wolff]

Nope. I name my cars but not my musical instruments, even though my cars last me only about 12 years or so, while my favorite guitar is over 50 and my harp is over 30 years old.

[shelby-m]

I decided not to name my harp.

[Michael Harwood]

Before I picked up the harp I played guitar and bass, and it never occurred to me to name an instrument.

[harpglo-jean]

Yeah, I thought it was silly at first to “name” my harps, but I have to admit it’s easier to identify them that way, especially when there are two of the same brand, and I need my husband to load one in the car…..

[adam-b-harris]

I can understand harp naming for personalization and convenience, but generally when you name a harp you are assigning a gender to it (assuming a non – unisex name) which I find disturbing for some reason.

[Zen Sojourner]

Ditto.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

My harp’s name was revealed to me as I watched the phenomenal Erica Goodman perform upon it: Scintillation. Three people have performed Scintillation on my harp: Heidi Lehwalder, Erica Goodman, and me. Pretty good.

[tonie-ogimachi]

As a part-time commercial fisherman, I only name my boats, but not my harps.

[Alice Avery]

Hi,

I have named my harps – my Voyageur is Cecilia (after my deceased mother) and the Prelude 40 is Grace in the

[Ian McVoy]

It connects me to the instrument and sometimes helps me relate to it.

[clh-h]

I heard of this before I bought my harp, so I thought, what the heck; swords have names, so why not harps. So I named my harp in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish: Nandelë Nucumna. Nandelë just means “little harp” (since it’s only got nineteen strings). The second part of the name is sort of like a title. Nucumna means “humble” (or humbled), Nandelë the Humble. I call him that (yeah, I think of my harp as a he not a she) because he’s a mid-east harp and everyone says mid-east harps are rubbish. I prefer to think of them as humble.

[Zen Sojourner]

MANY mideast harps are rubbish.

[deb-l]

the names I give harps never stick.

[John McK]

The only instrument I’ve ever named (which stuck) was a Rickenbacker 330 electric guitar with a quilted maple finish. She was named “Emma.” The rock/metal/pop music playlist in my itunes is now called “Emma’s Favorites.” I sold Emma to fund my first harp, which in hindsight wasn’t a great idea.

For decades I had a bass guitar which I called “the wife” but more as a description than as a personifying name.

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