[David Ice]

Hi Jerusha,

I think that Vanderbilt Music/Eleanor Fell might be doing a remaster of Jack Nebergall’s recording AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’

At least that’s what memory tells me….but then again, I may need to up my medication again 🙂

[David Ice]

Saul,

Tim Guster of Belair, South Australia makes a lever harp that is nearly as tall as I am (6’2″) and has an outrageously HUGE sound and looks for all the world like a pedal harp.

[David Ice]

Hi Catherine,

I remember well Jack Nebergall’s “Blue”.

[David Ice]

Hi Dianne,

When I said that somehow I felt it might be “cheating” to practice with a recording, it was because it was drummed into my head by some very odd musicians (when I was a child) that even marking anything on your music was somehow “cheating”…i.e. if you were a real musician you didn’t need to mark fingering, circle clef changes, etc.

[David Ice]

Hi Esmeralda,

I don’t really remember the exact moment…but I do remember you’re pretty much solo for 3 or 4 bars.

[David Ice]

Hi Esmeralda,

What I’ve done occasionally (like Wagner’s RING CYCLE) is to get a first violin part and follow that during rehearsals/performance.

[David Ice]

Hi Evangeline,

Just so you know, I played this piece years ago.

[David Ice]

Aside from the no fingernails thing (which my dogs really notice as they always go immediately to visitors for “real” scratchies, I hate it when you get the blank stares when you tell people you play “harp” and they hear “heart.”

[David Ice]

Hi Heather!

I did a harp arrangement in the original keys.

[David Ice]

I have mostly adult students, and what I’ve found that works is:

1) Get them to laugh–at you, and at themselves.

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