What I hate about being a harpist

[unknown-user]

i hate that i dress sizes 10-12, but if you were to take a look at my fingers on their own, you would think i’m a size 22-24

[michael-steadman]

I hate carrying my pedal harp up and down the stairs from my third floor flat!

[amy-walts]

I hate heavy doors at gig locations that don’t stay open on their own. It’s so hard to wheel a pedal harp through a door that won’t stay open.

I hate shoulder welts (or as they are affectionately known around here, “shoulder hickies”) from carrying lever harps too far.

I hate not having a dining room anymore since the harps and their stuff took over (I finally gave up and put the furniture in storage)!

I hate the adventure of climate controlling a one-hundred-year-old house in an area where it’s 100 humid degrees in the summer and 10 dry degrees in the winter.

I hate brides who insist the outdoor wedding continue as planned even when it’s dumping down rain or snow.

But you know… when I think back to my pre-harp days, when I wanted to play more than anything, I remember swearing I could never hate anything about it. I would do ANYTHING to be a harpist. So all those things I said I hated… I take it back… Except the rainy brides…!! 😉

[unknown-user]

I hate that by now i take it for granted that i will find the harp at concert venue and don’t have to carry it around…this might sound good… but yesterday i picked up an antique Amati violin to do some guilding works on its back and side… and as i was driving i just passed a flowershop, and stopped to purchase and forgot the violin for an hour or so at the back of my car.

[unknown-user]

I know this was an old thread, but I agreed with what everyone was saying!

I hate how bumping your hands or getting a paper cut feels like a life or death matter as you quickly check to see how “deep” the injury has gone.

Or when I want to move my petite pedal harp and have to ask my dad to help me load it since the upper body strength of a 17 year old petite girl is not enough. =_=

And I hate when people (especially kids, even though I love them) come up and start pushing the pedals and bumping the harp around like IT DIDN’T COST OVER $10,000 DOLLARS!!!!!

Any other harpist blues? 😉

[shannon-schumann]

I hate that people constantly ask me if I’m a massage therapist when they see me with my Harpsicle bag.

When I’m with my R harp, I can see it, but a Harpsicle? Who do I massage – midgets? Myabe cats.

[eliza-morrison]

What I hate is constantly tuning, and worrying about being in tune, and carrying the harp over icy paths or snowbanks, or up winding stairs to choir lifts in ancient churches. And I hate the constant question “how much does one of these things cost?”

[kent-vogel]

Could you please tell me how you bought it and how you got monthly payments?

Sadly, those five years

[Alison]

I am beginning to tire of putting the covers and dolly on and off three times a trip, on to go,

[Maria Myers]

Briggs doesn’t post in this column anymore.

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