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Thanks! I had found that site already, but I would like to know if people also played them. There is little to none info about experiences with these harps on the internet.

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Thanks! This arrangement was made by Ghislaine Voorrecht (ghislainevoorrecht@gmail.com). You could try to contact her. It’s written for lever harp.

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This is something he played two days ago. The difference in his hands is quite clear I think. He’s working hard now 🙂

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Thanks for the nice reply! We are already saving for a pedal harp some day 🙂 But they are so expensive…

Last month he played this piece in a harp competition and was put down to earth by the jury afterwards. They told him that his technique was not good enough (which I and his teacher already knew, but he’s a bit stubborn sometimes 🙂 ). After that somehow he realised that his harp future is at stake and succeeded in a single week to improve his technique quite a lot. He know starts to close his hands nicely when playing and using better technique. Even his teacher was surprised he could adapt that quickly. He decided for himself that he maybe wants to do conservatory later so he has a goal now 🙂

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Thanks! He is practicing a lot lately and really starts to like it more and more… So that’s great to see…

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Thanks! We just sent a movie to a Dutch music competition for children from 4-12 years. I’m really curious how far he will come. He get’s more and more serious in playing and practicing and is working hard on the Handel Concert now, which he seems to be able to get in his fingers quite well… It’s a delight to see a child being able to enjoy music so much…

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He’s fully into Pachelbel 🙂 Now he’s also playing the sarabande. I really like the sound of this harp and also the way he puts feeling into his music. I play for 20 years the flute myself, but sometimes I’m ‘jealous’ and wished I had this at this age 🙂

 

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Thanks! That’s great to hear 🙂 Today he took his own harp to the lesson and played together with the teacher the Canon with two harps. It was such an enjoyment to see that he was really playing together and listening to what his teacher was doing… I really hope we can keep stimulating him to keep doing this, because I think this is really ‘his’ thing so to say…

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Thanks, I surely think he is improving his techniques 🙂

I’m every time again surprised about what he’s able to do with the harp. I play myself the flute for 20 years now and really can play quite a bit, but how he is able to make this music his own and really not the easiest pieces (he just started with the Handel concert now, because he wanted that…) astonishes me every time. It’s great to see, but I also realize I won’t be able to follow up with his level if he goes on like this. I’m a teacher from profession, so I just enjoy this 🙂 We’ll see where he comes. The most important thing is that he enjoys what he’s doing.

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He’s growing fast indeed… We enjoy it a lot. I even went to take lessons again after he started, so it’s great 🙂

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He has a good teacher fortunately and they are working on this 🙂 He is doing his chords and scales a lot now, and fingering technique is under attention. He’s a bit stubborn sometimes 🙂 Of course he’s just 8 years old, so it’ll take some time to get this all perfectly. Thanks for the advice!

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Thanks! I’m sure the collection will increase. His teacher already said to start saving money for the future for a pedal harp 🙂 But that’ll take some time I guess.

This is him playing on his new Merlin:

He’s so happy with it.

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Thanks! He really has a very good teacher (well known here) that is working hard on learning him his technique. He’s very learnable, but also a bit stubborn 🙂 He’s progressing day by day and certainly not learning himself. But the issue is that he has a very strong feeling for playing the harp so he did learn himself partly, and that’s unavoidable, because when he sees the music he just starts to play it 🙂 So technique certainly is high on the priority list now. At this moment we are working together on Pachelbel’s Canon to play it together with me on flute.

A pedal harp is out of range at this moment for us, but it certainly is on the list for the future.

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Thanks! I’m sure it will be fun playing together…

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Here is the same piece on his new Merlin harp. What a difference in sound!

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