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Yes, the very first thing to do is take the harp into another room to be sure it really is the harp itself that’s buzzing. Very often buzzes that sound like they are coming directly from the harp are really sympathetic vibrations from an object in the room.
Yes, I mean here:
Yes, that’s a very good resource, but I think the best one would be to just ask the other harpists in your area (you’re still in S FL?) to show you what they use.
One small caveat about Deborah’s book–it’s a lot of info, and in the real world you can get by not understanding everything it covers. I know plenty of harpists with successful gigging careers who manage without understanding almost anything it covers, but if you want to go into this knowing what you’re doing it’s a good place to start.
Hi, Lisa.
Well, that’s sort of like asking, “How big is a house and how much does one cost?”. There are a lot of different answers, depending on a lot of different variables. Are you talking about amplification for background music, and if so, for how large a crowd? Do you mean stage performance, church services, solo, ensemble, etc?
The least you can get away with is some kind of mic or pickup plus an amplifier and it can get a lot more complicated than that, depending.
Also if you have any kind of smartphone, ipod, ipad there are apps for most of those, although of course it sounds better with an external mic, even the one from the earbuds. Not Zoom quality, but okay for practicing.
The last I heard, Saul, she was working at IU for the Physics department. I think she was in charge of conference arrangements for groups coming to use their particle accelerator or something like that.
Oops, hit Post accidentally. It’s just that ‘con vaghezza’ makes no sense in that spot, and certainly Mr. Grandjany had no vaghezza at all there when he played it, so whatever it is, it’s almost certainly not that.
Syllabus here:
