Strange things people have called your harp

[adam-b-harris]

A Sitar. Others?

[anita-burroughs-price]

A harpsichord.

[Mark Duncan]

I sometimes work out of town, so I take my lap harp to practice. The guys I work with refer to it as “That Thing You play”

[barbara-brundage]

For me, nobody has ever called it a harpsichord, but people often call it a harpischord. If not that, then a cello, pronounced sell-o.

[Amber M]

Some guys saw me carrying the harp in its case and asked if it was a MANPAD.

[sara-l]

Flying home from a gig last week, a fellow passenger told me that my harp (in its case, strapped into a seat) looked like Gumby.

[jennifer-buehler]

French Horn.

[Sid Humphreys]

A few weeks ago, while loading up my harp in the carport, a girl stopped and asked if that was a cello.

A few years earlier, a man asked me how long I had been playing the harpoon!

[adam-b-harris]

These are great. I am glad that rural Western Australia is not the only place where ignorance exists. I’d forgotten there is a journalist in a neighbouring town that has written about me and my harpsichord on a number of occasions. Damn I wish I had one of those.

[cc-chiu]

I was at a festival in Belgium and people were asking whether I was carrying a grand piano (I’ve got a bardic 27)… To clarify, a grand piano is a ‘vleugel’ (wing) in Dutch. And the harp in its travel case looks a little bit like a wing…

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