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Hannah, didn’t you ever play Kerstin’s Arianna? I find it rather dark and not a great projecting sound.
Briggs
I recommend “Fun From the First” by Milligan, Vol 1 and 2, which was already recommended. Also the MacDonald Harp Olympics series is excellent, and the Suzuki Vol. 1 is good.
I also include scales I just assign and show the fingering on. Sometimes I use an exercise or two from the Friou book, but I’m not nuts about the progression in that book.
Just thought I’d let you know that he did fix it up for me this summer. He found a child’s mirror — damaged — for $1.00. The base was hot pink, criss-cross wood….just exactly what it needed. He brought it home……sprayed it a walnut brown to match the stand. Then he took the screws out of the pole altogether and cut down the big chunk at the bottom. He screwed the center pole onto the base, and it looks and works just perfectly for me now. I needed it when I played the Renaissance faire here, so he did that for me this past summer.
Briggs
I can tell you that Camac levers compromise the sound the least of all the levers I have heard, and I find them easy to grasp in a hurry. Some don’t like that they are heavier than others. I don’t care. I LOVE them and the way the strings sound when the levers are engaged. Lovelands are harder to get my hands on quickly. I can’t be specific for others…..but on a double strung harp do you even need levers? (I don’t know much about double or wire strung harps.)
Briggs
It’s possible it will fit in the same case as the Stoney End Eve which isn’t that much money. Check:
Timothy, my humble apologies. When I saw your harps at the AHS I was told the price in Canadian and not US, and that seemed high. I didn’t realize it was
Out for pedal harpists???? Surely you jest! As an organist who plays tunes with her feet along with working swell shades and a crescendo pedal and pushing toe studs…..um tapping a page turn with my foot while playing pedal harp would be a piece o’ cake.
Briggsie
I think this is the replacement for the Aedh which he no longer makes. I haven’t played one, but I have played his floor harps (at the AHS Conference this year) and they are really very nice. His prices are on the high side I thought, however.
Briggsie
Hi Laura,
And members of the Harpcolumn, as a fellow student of Laura’s teacher, let me assure you that Laura has CHOPS…..big time chops…..when she plays harp. I watched her play one of the Bach French Suites last Tuesday evening at our twice/yearly harp class, and it was pretty darned awesome. So…….Laura could most likely go on to become a professional harpist or a harp teacher, but it seems she is dedicated to nursing. Would that ALL nurses were that dedicated (although most seem to be).
Briggsie
How old is the harp? How old are the strings? What kind of strings are you using? What is the weather like where you live? Where is your harp kept in the house?
Briggs
My livingroom is carpeted. I have the concert grand on a piece of hard plastic, but my smaller Webster harp — which I thought had a pretty big voice and was told such when I played it outside at a local Renaissance faire — recently surprised me. I ordered a harp table for it to bring it to a more reasonable height. I got the table last weekend. It is walnut with leather on the top. When I put the Webster on it, the sound and brightness doubled. It just blows me away how much better it sounds on the harp table.
Briggsie
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Briggsie
