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Saul- You’re missing the whole point about using etudes.

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I believe you, and I meant no insult.

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I’ll be very very VERY curious to see what sort of responses you get to this question.

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The above responses are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RIGHT!

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The easiest set of Bochsa etudes is the Op. 318, which is called 40 EASY ETUDES.

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Hey Jacob- Welcome aboard!

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Oh Sorry, I misread that!

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Paul- you were 6 or 7 months pregnant?????

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I agree with the above responses.

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I agree with the above responses.

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I think a lot of people have a false impression of Salzedo harpists as being very close-minded. I know that’s not true. I think that we are/were held to very high standards and very high technical demands, and after coming through that, a lot of other music tends to seem not challenging or interesting enough,

Saul- The first sentence of the above extract from your post is directly contradicted by the rest of the extract.This is exactly the sort of attitude that infuriates me about the Salzedo school.

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Tacye- Your post reminded me of one of the most fascinating museums in Paris, which almost no one knows about.

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Alex- You hit on the core problem in your post, and it’s something I wrote about elsewhere.

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Tacye’s suggestion is a good one.

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I learned the Grandjany version, but later on made some changes, particularly to the ornaments.

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