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  • November 8, 2017 at 5:10 am #211858
    Sylvia
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    What I’ve done in the past, and it has worked, is tell the bride if she sends me the music, I’ll be happy to play it. That puts the problem on the bride instead of the musician.

    November 8, 2017 at 5:13 am #211859
    Sylvia
    Participant

    What I’ve done in the past, and it worked, was tell the bride that if she would send me the music, I’d be happy to play it.

    November 8, 2017 at 10:42 am #211863
    Jerusha Amado
    Participant

    Hi Sylvia,

    That sounds like a very good way to solve this issue!

    November 8, 2017 at 12:51 pm #211868
    catherine-rogers
    Participant

    My only problem with this is the arrangement the bride sends may be unplayable or unsuitable for harp. One sent me harmonica music, which I couldn’t decipher at all. I spend a lot of time looking at various harp arrangements (or piano arrangements if that’s all that’s available) before deciding which version in which key will work best for me, and even then I often end up rewriting it.

    November 8, 2017 at 1:50 pm #211869
    Jerusha Amado
    Participant

    Good points, Catherine, ones that I didn’t think of.

    November 8, 2017 at 5:02 pm #211873
    emma-graham
    Participant

    Yes, I used to take that approach but it rarely worked. I either found myself answering endless questions about where to find the music – by which time I might as well have just bought it myself – or, as Catherine says, what the bride sent was useless. One bride’s interpretation of “sheet music” was a (bootlegged) Metallica CD accompanied by the lyrics to “Nothing Else Matters”. Helpful!!

    It’s so much easier now. I usually go for an easy piano version and build my own arrangement around it. I use the Sheet Music Direct app and you can preview the first page so it’s possible to see what will work best before actually buying it. You can transpose it into any key within the app too, which is great!

    November 8, 2017 at 5:16 pm #211874
    catherine-rogers
    Participant

    My first stop is usually MusicNotes.com. You can see all pages of an arrangement and many are available in a choice of keys (very helpful when considering necessary pedal changes; I chose one key because that was the only key where the simultaneous pedal changes were on opposite sides).

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