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I am looking forward to the new edition. Thank you for all of your work. I hope we will be able to buy it at the conferences this summer!
I think if the issue is rigidity, the more important thing to me would be is the student closing the fingers completely after playing? I find that the closing to be the relaxing part and the raise would be sort of an after thought or continuation of that motion.
this free arrangement is playable on the harp:
http://imgur.com/a/QsN9v
It is by this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ihknKr_3kI do not own a heartland harp, but have played on one. The curved back is very different and would take some getting used to. It seemed to me that because you don’t pull the harp back, the position makes it so you play very close to the soundboard in the upper range with the RH. I definitely wouldn’t buy one without trying it out and being sure you are comfortable with it.
Okay, Elizabeth, I will play it correctly! 🙂 Thank you so much for the pdf! There you go saving me again. You should publish a book with all of your lovely edits. Thank you for making it so legible and playable!!
My five year old plays on my Dusty Strings FH-26 and it is perfect for her. It sits on the floor and she sits in a small chair. I think a Ravenna would be great. Most importantly I think it should be a harp that balances on the floor. Not something that requires a lap bar or stand. Just too precarious.
Sometimes this one is taken in 6 instead of 3 so a straight seven doesn’t work anyway. But if it is fast enough, I like it that way. Anyone have any tips for making No 10 scene less awkward?
I personally do not like the hassle of the 3 piece sets. I have a venus tranport cover that offers nice padding and is weather resistant fabric. It does not have a base covering and I usually just put a piece of cardboard down to set it on when I load it. But I have seen someone make their own base cover by cutting out a big circle of vinyl and then punching holes around the edge and then lacing a string through them. Then they just pull the lace and it fold up around the base. I am interested in seeing the new covers that Carl Swanson has produced.
I did my bachelor’s and master’s in performance and I loved it. It is probably the only time that you will be among a great community of other harpists and can share pedalings, and fingerings, and listen to other people play and learn and grow so much. I perform a lot with choirs, orchestras, weddings, etc, as well as teach privately and at a university. I love that my job gives me the flexibility to be home with my kids a lot. However all this isn’t really enough to support a family. I am grateful that my husband has a good job with benefits. It was interesting to read the harpcolumn profile this month about Allegra and how one of the best things to her about winning the St. Louis job is having financial security and not having to worry about do I have enough money to go to the doctor. My students at University of Kansas are either education majors or music therapy. I think it is smart to have something a little more practical in their degree and I think they are getting the same benefits musically as a performance major would. I am glad that Jennifer talked about her music therapy degree. I know that KU has a great music therapy program and only one of my students has done therapy so far. I am very interested in seeing what people end up doing with that degree and if it is necessary to have post graduate training in it as well.
I much prefer the sound of straight seven. Too me the triplet, 16th figure sounds like the dancer is unbalanced and about to fall over. Hey we rewrote the entire cadenza, why not this passage?
There is an article about buying harps in the upcoming issue of the harp column. I think it would be very useful to you but it would probably just cover the makers that are available in America. I am not familiar with that maker but maybe your teacher could play it and see how it sounds. But you can be confident that Salvi or Camac is good. There are some less expensive student models like the Ogden from L&H or the Ravenna from Dusty Strings that sounds great but are a good price.
