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Hi, Geri. Usually, unless the maker specifies otherwise, A=440 is the way to go for most harps. For period instruments it’s a lot less, sometimes A=415.
Gifts are okay, but professionals like teachers, doctors, lawyers don’t expect a tip. It’s different for performing, when the performer is considered a kind of service worker. (You wouldn’t tip a recitalist, who’s in artiste mode, but a gig player can be tipped, and according to Miss Manners, should be.)
Gifts are okay, but professionals like teachers, doctors, lawyers don’t expect a tip. It’s different for performing, when the performer is considered a kind of service worker. (You wouldn’t tip a recitalist, who’s in artiste mode, but a gig player can be tipped, and according to Miss Manners, should be.)
>I can’t imagine someone getting up to smoke during a wedding
Actually, Andy, these days when people have no sense of occasion, I’ve done several outdoor weddings where guests smoked all during the ceremony. They don’t get up; they smoke in their seats and annoy the other guests, too.
Well, it depends on whether or not you want to make a living, Misty. If this is just a hobby, then of course you can be as fussy as you want. But if you want to get work back at the venue again, or get referred by the client, you have to deal with reality.
Reality is that you are a worker, just like the wait staff or the bartender, and you don’t have the rights of a guest. Sorry, but that’s just how it is.
Yeah, there was a big fad in the US a few years ago for cigar dinners: really strongly flavored food, a different cigar with every course, and a harpist, naturally. I really hated playing for those.
Congratulations, Kay! Enjoy your new harp.
(and Tony’s right about the delivery–that’s just how it is most places, so don’t fret if they won’t stay and socialize)
Umm, if you’re there on a gig, you’re the hired help. You keep playing and try not to breathe hard. That’s all there is to it. There are disadvantages to every kind of work and this is one of the downsides to being a working musician, and you put up with it.
You might want to see if you can get hold of “The Complete Guide to Harp Glissandi” by John Marson (available from lyramusic.com), and also Sylvia Woods has a sort of “cheat sheet” for common glissando spellings.
Also the Patricia Jaeger “…with a Friend” books (Irish, Christmas, Hymns) are nice. They’re for harp and up to four other instruments (come with string quartet parts, but they work fine with just harp and treble I).
> The saleslady there pointed out that the action plate says “Chicago BY Lyon and Healy”,
Yes, I find it–um,suggestive–that the brochure says it was “designed” in Chicago by Lyon & Healy.
My old salvi adjustable bench had leather washers between the legs and the body of the bench to prevent squeaks. If the squeak is in the legs, those might help yours.
