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Martha Beth’s Web site is infected with Malware — specifically HTML.IFRAME.ACY. This program is non-destructive, but tries to connect to another Web site which then infects your computer. An HTML malware is a malicious HTML (HyperText Markup Language) file which is usually embedded with malicious scripts. It automatically executes when the HTML page is viewed from a script-enabled browser. If you know her or her Web master, you might let them know. I would love to see her article, but I’m not going back to her Web site.
My therapeutic musician training was online with a 90-minute class every Friday night for eight months using Skype. We had 4 students from the US and 2 from Australia in the class and it worked just fine (especially playing our harps for each other during the session). Our group still meets once a month on Skype for an informal
These are not Forums, but email lists. One is for beginners in particular. This is a small list (141 members), but very active — averages more than 20 messages a DAY.
For people who need to calculate time in different places, I find this Web site useful. (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/) It is a lot easier for me to look up a city near the desired location than to try to subtract or add hours to GMT.
Here’s a link to a string chart with tonal frequencies in Hz (http://www.harpsatsang.com/harp_design/data/celtic26stringchart.html)
If you can figure out which strings are “Middle C” and the “440 A”, maybe it will help you figure out the rest of them. Normally there are only two clear strings between “F” and “C”.
My Dad, who played cornet with the University of Wisconsin Marching Band in conditions like these at late season football games, had several non-metal mouthpieces. Looked like plastic to me, but in the late 1930s, who knows what they actually were.
I think being able to read music opens doors for you that might be otherwise closed. There are so many wonderful books of harp music available. I would recommend learning to read music, but the thing that makes you a better player is practicing with good technique. You are wise to be looking for a teacher.
If your new teacher looks down on you for not being able to read music, then I would try hard to find another teacher. In my mind, that is not a good attitude to have
I think one of biggest challenges for me of going from 30+ years of violin and viola playing to harp was changing from fingering with one-hand to fingering with both hands. If you can wrap your mind around that and determine that it will not be a problem, you will do just fine. As you say, you have the basics in music and that will be a help in the long run.
I second the recommendations others made for renting as opposed to buying. You might have completely different opinions after six-months of playing. And I would definitely recommend finding a teacher before you buy anything.
As a rural harpist, I can sympathize with the difficulties in finding a local teacher. However, I really think you would have more fun if you could change your right hand behavior with a good teacher. If you have a DSL or Cable Modem computer connection (not dial-up) and a WebCam, the technology is now available to do long distance lessons with any number of teachers. In Google, type Skype “harp teacher” with the quotes as I have shown and you will get several pages of listings for harp teachers who offer lessons over the Internet. Books are a good way to get started, but I think feedback from a live instructor is also quite useful.
Good luck!
I regularly wrap garland around the column and carefully attach a large bow at the top. (See http://windandroses.com/pgallery/Holiday%20Gigs/010_20051211hrp.jpg)
Is “The Call” that Harper Tasche played the same tune as the one written by Michael (Misha) O’Hanlan?
Because people’s eyes are drawn first to a picture, it is a good idea to put a design or photo on the left side of the card. Then people can comfortably read from left to right (at least in English, German and the Romance languages) and are not jumping around trying to find your information.
After the picture keep it simple. Name, phone number, email address and Web site are most important. Many harpists do not put their home addresses on a business card for security reasons. (You are usually handing out the card when you are not home and in bigger cities that is not always a good idea.)
If you want to limit your business to weddings, say so. Otherwise something like “Elegant music for special occasions” covers a lot of bases.
I think it sounds better with a high A to a G and play it that way myself. The MIDI versions I’ve found on this Web site agree with this interpretation. (http://www.contemplator.com/carolan/carolmid.html#plunkett)
—– Alice Freeman
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