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  • January 27, 2011 at 12:09 am #106729
    Maria Myers
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    Shelby,

    What do you mean by “color”?

    January 27, 2011 at 3:46 pm #106730
    darth-mom
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    In weather like this, what is on my music stand is a lot of spare strings.

    February 1, 2011 at 5:45 pm #106731
    shelby-m
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    How do I explain?

    February 1, 2011 at 7:28 pm #106732
    Maria Myers
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    It sounds like you’re saying that tone color involves thinking about variations along a color spectrum

    February 1, 2011 at 7:41 pm #106733
    tony-morosco
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    Currently I’m working out my own arrangement of While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

    February 1, 2011 at 7:43 pm #106734
    helen-rudd
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    Shelby,
    For furniture you could try tin foil. My cats were clawing everything and for a few weeks I covered all their favorite scratching spots with tinfoil. It stopped them quickly but I left it on for a while and provided a tantalizing sissal (sp?) tree for them to claw instead and they’ve never gone back to the couch, chairs and sideboard they used to delight in ripping to shred.

    February 1, 2011 at 8:40 pm #106735
    Jerusha Amado
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    That’s wonderful!!

    Tony, I would love to learn this song.

    February 1, 2011 at 8:43 pm #106736
    kathy-chanik
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    Stan, you flashed me back to my childhood when you talked about playing the Hammond organ in bars and restaurants. I studied organ for several years as a child (I’m 58 now so you know my time frame). Do you remember the beautiful organist in the movies named Ethel Smith? And how about the mysterious Korla Pandit? Just did a google search and found them both. No organ for me anymore, but I do love the harp so much. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

    February 1, 2011 at 9:25 pm #106737
    tony-morosco
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    I actually started with a piano arrangement I found on Musicnotes.com and then stripped it down to the bare essentials and rebuilt it from that.

    It really has a lot of potential on the harp, although I am trying to come up with my own unique solo for it, like writing my own cadenza, and that is the most challenging part. I want it to echo the original but be my own.

    February 1, 2011 at 10:00 pm #106738
    Jerusha Amado
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    I’ve done the same thing, but with “Stairway to Heaven”.

    Do you use a music software program to write down what you create, or are your arrangements all in your mind only?

    February 1, 2011 at 11:56 pm #106739
    tony-morosco
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    A

    February 4, 2011 at 5:42 pm #106740
    shelby-m
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    Yes, I actually do think about the color I’m trying to achieve in my tone while playing.

    February 4, 2011 at 7:09 pm #106741
    Maria Myers
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    Shelby,

    Thanks so much for your help!

    February 7, 2011 at 11:29 am #106742
    shelby-m
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    No problem! :-)

    February 9, 2011 at 7:42 pm #106743
    stan-guy
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    HI, Kathy —

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