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……..You go shopping for clothes, and only buy what has “harp performing” potential.
……..You set an alarm clock in your music room just so you know for sure that you have been practicing for the “proper” amount of time. And then when it rings, you keep hitting the snooze button so you can have a few more minutes of practice time before you head off to work. 🙂You know you are a harp addict when:
You have to say your ABC’s for some reason, and you get to G and start over again at A. ~A,B,C,D,E,F,G,-A,B,C,D,E,F,G,-A
And then after doing that so many times you wonder ” Wait……wasn’t there supposed to be a Z after so many letters in there??”Or you just automatically ask everyone in the room to be quiet while you tune……..and then you realize that you are by yourself anyway. 🙂
I play a L&H Ogden lever harp.
I guess that I mostly just love the “big” sound it has. It’s sound is so rich and clear. It sounds so much like a pedal harp, and that is what I hope to someday have. (And the fact that it is small, so I can take it anywhere is also a big plus for me)I normally only “warm up” for about five minutes. However, I am not very advanced in my playing, so my songs don’t need all that much warming up in the first place. Like Angela, I typically warm up by playing previously memorized pieces.
I have a L&H Ogden lever harp.
Her name is Annina, which means “Beautiful”. And that is very true, as she has beautiful sound. 🙂Yes, I probably do have it a little messed up. People have been telling me so many different things, I am beginning to get pretty confused. In the winter, the harp is kept at a pretty constant humidity. It is in the summer that it will change more often. I try to keep it at the suggested humidity for a harp. (Although not always possible) I am beginning to think that pedal verses lever harp strings is more of an opinion, rather than one actually being proven to be better than the other. (Not exactly what some people were saying)
I am pretty new to the harp, and very inexperienced when it comes to its care. So I really appreciate you getting back to me with your advice. It always helps to hear from someone who has “been there, done that”Thanks Tacye, for the advice! I was just going by what other people with more experience with my harp were saying. But you are absolutely right. I shouldn’t just “follow the crowd”, so to speak.
The Ogden is a harp that was made to have a more “pedal” sound, as apposed to the more “tinty” sound of other lever harps its size. But this extra tension on the soundboard and neck make the strings pop more frequently than other levers. And so I just didn’t know if changing it to pedal string tension would save me some string replacing.
And I understand what you meant by it not having a consistent sound when the strings are mixed. That was something I honestly hadn’t thought of, and I will keep that in mind.
Thanks so much!Thank you all for getting back to me. Your advice has been really appreciated. I think that now I have a good idea as to the “harp happy” humidity level, as well as when to be running both the dehumidifier and the humidifier. (And I found out about the hygrometer, which I think I shall be getting very soon:)
Thanks again,
BayAngela,
Thanks so much for getting back to me. It was starting to get pretty confusing, because everything that I was being told, or had read was really starting to contradict one another. And since I am fairly new to all this, I didn’t know what I should do. So anyway, now it makes much more sense what everyone was saying, both about using a humidifier and not using one.
Thanks,
Bay
