Music Thanatology Harp?

[Peg .]

I’m investigating the field of music thanatology (http://www.mtai.org/index.php/about) and (http://chaliceofrepose.org/).

[priscilla-kleiner]

Hi Peggy,

I keep going to the Highland Harp website. This has just 26 strings, but the base/wheel concept seems great. Here is a link to the testimonials page. I am a novice and have a Blevins Consort 36 that i love. I don’t play out anywhere, but I still keep looking at this harp. I’d love to try one.

http://highlandharps.webs.com/testimonials.htm

Priscills

[Peg .]

Thanks, Priscilla.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

But what happens if they don’t die, if they recover, or worse yet, don’t know they are dying? I think I would not reveal it in my job title.

[tonya-a]

I have a MusicMakers Gothic harp that I’ve re-strung with a C-bass and wire-wrapped strings for the lowest octave; I’ve owned this harp for

[margaret-sneddon]

Hi Priscilla,
The Highland harp is, indeed, very well suited to therapeutic music as well as playing for pleasure. If you would like to try one and are anywhere near Ashville, NC, you can see a Highland at the R-Harps booth at the Southeast Harp week-end, October 7-9.

http://www.southeasternharps.com/SEHW/Home.html

Hope to see you there.
Margaret Sneddon,
Highland Harps rep.

[Tristan Adair]

Hello Peg,

I graduated with the class of 1998 from the School of Music Thanatology and have been working some 13 years. At the time, we were only allowed to use Musicmaker’s harps (gothic 31) and Dusty Strings (2 models I think were allowed). I got a Gothic 31 and adore the harp. All these years and the sound just gets better. A few years ago I switched to a smaller harp, as I found that @ 58, taking that gothic around for 8 hours a day, in and out of my car, is just hard on my body as well as the harp. I switched to a smaller harp for my patients and have been happy. My gothic 31 is used for weddings, funerals, and events and rarely have I even needed to amplify, even in cathedrals.

I would start with your 31 Gothic if you are at all able, or a smaller of their harps. Start big, go smaller, if you must, eventually. I highly recommend Jerry’s harps. Obviously please temper my advice with how many visits you do per day, if you are in one location seeing patients, your physical ability to heft in and out of car and up and down stairs, etc. I would love to try one of the carbon fiber harps, wow what an idea to not worry about heat, cold, retuning, banging the harp, raindrops at weddings, etc. BTW, my work with hospice patients has been my life’s calling; I adore my work. Good luck!

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