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I would look into using Square if you have a smartphone or tablet. It has a card swiper that can be plugged into your phone or you can type in the number. Square then automatically deposits the money in your bank account. I love it and it is very professional! 🙂
I have worked with two harp teachers at once. I was learning the Ceremony of Carols and my teacher recommended I take several lessons from another, more prominent harp teacher who had performed it much much more. They were mutually respectful of each other and it worked out well, although it was not long term.
If you are learning two different styles from your different teachers I would suggest doing something like studying the blues in the summer, but the Russian method during the school year. This way the teachers are not directly conflicting.
It has been a long time since I’ve been on these forums, but I found this one while searching for a recording of the Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto with Salzedo’s Cadenza.
I love all of you on harp column! Thank you for saving me from possible disaster!
For the record I do have my email listed on several harp teacher sites, but so far all inquiries have been from people in my area.
Fun topic!
I recently met President Mary McAleese of Ireland when she came to Portland to dedicate the Irish famine memorial.
I think everybody has some great things to say – I especially enjoyed Carl’s.
I want to make an analogy here. I once attended a seminar by well-known writer Stephen Laws. He said that when he writes he must be careful not to empty his “well“ of ideas each day, if he does, he has nothing to start with on the next day. I think practicing can be like this. If you practice out all your ideas and become exhausted, it will be more difficult to come back to the same piece the next day. If you stop when you’re still excited about it and “could practice longer” you can have a greater desire to come back to it. Sometimes, of course, you just have to grit your teeth and grind through. Similarly, Stephen Laws said when he was uninspired he made himself write his daily “quota” of words anyway – it didn’t matter if he changed them later.
Another thought on practice – listening to a good recording can count as practice. The better you can sing the melody in your head the faster you will learn and the easier everything will be.
