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I don’t know about that particular edition, but I would guess it’s “Fileuse”:
http://www.lyramusic.com/Fileuse-for-Harp-Solo-_p_797.html
If you aren’t sure if it’s the same, here’s a youtube of someone playing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_7H7T19yCw
If you want Kathleen Bride’s edition, I would contact her and ask her about it.
If your oboist can work from a flute part, Becky and Ernie Brock have a very nice flute and harp arrangement of this piece in their Opera Favorites collection.
EDIT All their pieces are arranged for lever harp, but also work well on pedal harp.
Yes, and they’re the Camac importers for the US, so they’d definitely be the folks who would know about older models.
Louise’s book is also available from harpcenter.com, and is probably discounted now along with the other print books.
Harps International has a single-action 11 with 42 strings listed, if that’s the harp you mean, Kay.
Why, thanks, Ellen, I’m glad you like it. The tension-in-pinkies thing is a problem for most of us when we first start. It takes a lot of conscious effort, but you can do it.
Yes, make sure it is following the other fingers when you close and open them. Tension in your pinkies is very hard for most people to overcome, but it’s really important to make the effort.
Most of us do it the other way around–choose a car based on the harp. If you do a google search of this site for harpmobile you should find many car threads.
Hi, Lyn. As Richard said, the pickup should make a big difference. But, if your daughter has a guitar tuner, it only listens for the open strings for the guitar, not the full range of a harp. I’m not sure they make a uke tuner, but it would be the same.
Richard, I find that usually the highest rib you can conveniently reach is the best spot, since the bass is more resonant. For me that’s usually the second or third one from the top, depending on how the sound holes are cut.
For me, if the harp has metal ribs (like a Lyon & Healy, for example), I clip the pickup onto one of those. I don’t have to move it on either my Style 11 or Prelude.
For lever harps, I may have to move the pickup to get the top strings of my thormahlen. (This is also true if I use the output from the built-in K&K pickup–can’t get the top notes very well using that, either.) I haven’t see any difference between the Korg pickup and the Matrix one except the packaging, having used them both–I think there are more differences between manufacturing batches within a brand than between the two. I don’t like the tuners that attach directly to the instrument, regardless of who makes them.
With an app, I think you’ll get better results if you use some kind of pickup like this (available under many brand names at any music store) to isolate the harp sound:
http://www.harpcenter.com/product/korg-cm100-l-contact-clip-pick-up/
You need something like this to get the sound into the phone/tablet:
http://www.petersontuners.com/index.cfm?category=151
You just plug the tuning pickup into the quarter inch end and the small end into the phone. Of course, you can just use the mic in the phone, but you’ll pick up a lot of ambient sound as well, which makes it hard to get a clear signal.
I personally prefer cleartune or istrobosoft for apps, but if you’re a beginner it may be easier to tune with a standalone tuner, since they aren’t as sensitive to overtones as the apps are, and don’t waver around as much. Even the inexpensive Korg tuners work well. Just make sure you get a chromatic tuner rather than a guitar tuner.
That’s it–“Valse”. It’s from here, incidentally:
He wrote more than one?
http://www.lyramusic.com/search.asp?keyword=dohnanyi&search.x=0&search.y=0
