Congrats Fiona – I hope your harp will be a goodun’.
Regarding Self-Teaching, I think the Pamela Bruner books and DVD explain technique far more clearly and the DVD is not region coded, so will play here in the UK. Pamela
I don’t think it was the “pop music of the day,” but more likely the music of the upper classes for the most part. The lower classes still had their own “jams.”