retuneing during a wedding

[vince-pierce]

Excuse me, that is totally unnecessary. We are here to help each other, not criticize each other unjustly. You might call him a poor musician, but you are just plain rude. Please stay away from the forums if you have nothing to contribute. I would not consider hiring you for anything with that attitude, even if you were the best harpist I had ever heard. Let’s be adults and respect each other, please.

[john-strand]

Beth T – I have 30 plus years of playing harp professionally including hundreds of weddings in all kinds of situations – I stand by my response –

[john-strand]

Beth T. – this is an informal thought and idea sharing site – I for one am more interested in content than anything else – Do you actually have some thoughts or suggestions on tuning problems in the wedding situation (in your experience of course) to add to this discussion?

[rod-c]

Beth:

As a professional editor, I would like to call your attention to the inappropriate use of the dash in your sentence. After your words, “I disagree,” you should place a period. Then start with a new sentence. The use of the dash here is wrong.

Finally, I am appalled at the mean spirit of your post. Another person was sharing his experience and joy…and you were quite cruel. How ugly. I don’t think we are interested in your grammar lesson. Find yourself a “grammar board” and post there.

Rod

[john-strand]

Rod – I love my dashes – I think of it as my “dashing technique” – Errol Flynn was also quite “dashing”, so I like to think I’m in good company –

[Charles]

Hello Everyone,

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[Cheryl Z.]

Beth,

There was no reason for you to make

[unknown-user]

Excellent tip Andy! I have been known to do innovative things with harps and rubber

[rod-c]

John:

I love your dashes, too. It’s Beth’s I don’t like. You know….I wander if we were pranked by Beth. She has only two posts to this board and I don’t think a real harpist would make such ugly comments.

And more cudos to Charles for having created such a wonderful memory by playing at his sister’s wedding.

Onward!

Rod

[rod-c]

Oh my….I misspelled “wonder” in the above post.

[sherry-lenox]

I’m grateful to all here for passing on the opportunity to address Beth’s lack of correct use of subjunctive mood. It might have hurt her feelings, and as we all know, calling someone out because

[Leigh Griffith]

I agree wholeheartedly, Sherry! I was an English Ed major in college
and one of my first comments to my hubby after finding this wonderful
forum was that I was glad I didn’t have to grade everyone’s spelling!
Thankfully, harping and spelling have nothing in common that I can
tell.

Enough about that. I played at our church this morning and tuning was a
nightmare! The church basement is kept at a balmy fifty degrees, but
until someone gets there to light the wood stove it is barely above
freezing upstairs.(I see you all cringing already)! I waited as long as
I dared before going home to get the harp (we live about two blocks
from the church). I told my hubby I didn’t need any help. Well over the
past couple of days we’ve gotten about an inch of snow/freezing rain so
I parked a little closer to the front door. This means I also parked
closer to where the driveway slopes down to the street. It was slick,
but I was careful and got the harp out to the car fine. The back of the
car (because I was on the downside of the slope) was almost chest high,
but I figured that just meant after I leaned the harp up, it would just
take a little more oomph than usual to get it up to where I could slide
it in. In the middle of the ‘oomph’ part, my footing gave way. A vision
of me going down, the harp landing on top of me and the two of us
sliding into the street in front of a logging truck flashed through my
brain. Luckily I regained my footing, but it took three or four tries
before I managed to get the harp far enough into the car where it
wouldn’t fall out if I let go. My feet kept sliding the whole time, but
I managed to keep them enough under me to finish the job.

There were no more incidents (the minister had graveled the ramp for
me) until it came to tuning. I always tune in octaves starting with my
lowest string. I tuned the entire harp three times without stopping
until I gave up because people were beginning to think that that was the prelude!

The two hymns were ones I had never played before (my hubby and I did
the service and which hymns we were going to use was decided last
night. Also, I was doing a craft show on Friday and Saturday.) So, I
was sight reading the hymns

[unknown-user]

I am a flutist who plays with Beth. She is an outstanding harpist, and usually a kind, generous and helpful person. She was incredibly hurt by all the ugly comments directed at her. I personally think she was way out of line with her comments, and I told her so.

But I thought you all would like to know that she probably won’t be reading this forum anymore, let alone posting anything to it. Yes, she was having a bad day – she recently lost a baby and her husband is overseas. And to top it off,

[john-strand]

Wanda – I am sad to hear about all Beth’s sorrows – it is way more than just a bad day and right on up there with tragic – we all have to deal with such issues at one time or another, and yet, it seems for some folks it can become overwhelming – I do hope that she has people around her that are able to understand and comfort her and help

[Cheryl Z.]

Wanda,

Ditto to what John wrote.

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