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As a matter of fact, I’ve known it to happen where a client specifically requested me, the agent didn’t want to pay my price and hired someone else and told her to say she was me.
Jessica, agents for jobs are contractors, not personal agents. You can’t “dump an agent” for another one, because Agent A has the contract for that particular function. You can say no to the agent, but the client isn’t going to ditch the agent because he sends Mary Sue instead of Misty. The clients have no idea of who we are, 99.9% of the time.
This isn’t like talent management, not that sort of an agent.
It’s quite likely to cost considerably more than the harp is worth to make it playable, Deb. Just sayin’,
Not certain, but I think that may be a Pratt Dauphine (made by the father of the current Pratt harpmakers).
Also, remember that the people who work at the venue can be powerful allies, if you are nice to them. Look for the folks who are on your side. They’re around.
Just remember that in a couple of hours you will get to go home and never have to deal with these people again. You could have an office job or be in the paint department at Home Depot or something like that where you have to deal with the same intensely irritating people/situations every day for 8 or 10 hours at a stretch.
At least we get new and different annoyances every time!
No matter how outrageous the parking fee, it’s not worth making yourself sick over it. And it’s not worth arguing with agents either. The good ones don’t need arguments; the others aren’t worth working for again.
> I wonder whether the copyright laws would make it impossible to publish.
It’s still under copyright, yes.
>Zabel Fountain I forget what this title actually is
Also “La Source” or “Am Springbrunnen”, depending.
Don’t be discouraged about the levers, Deb. That’s a pretty leverish piece, so it’s not surprising you find them challenging. Just keep at it and you’ll get them. It helps to practice just the left hand with the lever changes and to try to always get them in exactly the same place in the measure (otherwise they don’t easily get into your muscle memory).
While not holiday cards, these are very nice:
(note that one of the four designs doesn’t include a harp, only viols)
If you look around early in the season, particularly at museum store websites, there are sometimes boxed holiday cards with harps on them.
Yeah, it’s a real shame to see an old period house like that broken up. Such a pity, but I would bet this harp might actually be decent. Still, no way to know without seeing it in person. They sure did have some amazing stuff–looks like it should have become a museum instead of getting sold off piece by piece.
(On the other hand, I’ve been called to look at “Granny’s harp” many times over the years, and even in the same family in a modern climate controlled house it’s pretty amazing what can happen when nobody’s actually playing it anymore.)
What kind of parts are you looking for? Levers? If so, I’d contact Marni Williams, who’s their main rep in the US:
