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I do like the knee bones! If i’ve been playing for a long time, I do find that my hip starts to hurt because I tend to raise the leg a little to get the harp where I want it. But it does make playing a lot easier.
Jerusha
Have you ever spent time on his website? Simon Chadwick puts such amazing scholarship into his study of the wire strung harp
I love Lament of Tristan. Gorgeous piece! I got several pieces of music from Sylvia Woods for Christmas and have been working on those. Ive been working on the music from Brave and Sylvia Woods arrangement of Fireflies.
I have several. I have a Stoney End Brittany that is a heavy piece of work for it’s size. A harpsicle with a very sweet voice and very light weight. It’s bright yellow and I’ve had kids talk about getting to see Miss Jennifer’s golden harp! My favorite is a Triplett Christina. It has a pretty, mellow voice and is fairly light weight.
Dusty Strings are very wide at the top. I have a Square back Thormahlen Serenade that is much easier to reach around than even a stave backed Dusty.
LOL! I can sympathize! I have three kids of my own and have been there!
I always keep an entire set of strings on hand. Right now I couldn’t afford to replace a whole set of strings so would probably replace my replacements one at a time as needed.
As far as string tolerance for being out of range, I think it depends on what the string is made out of and where in the range of the harp it is. I’ve strung one of my harps with flourocarbon strings and a few are at the outer edge of the vibrating length. I definitely couldn’t use them on any higher pitches.
I know on my main harp, several pitches use the same diameter string anyway. Check your string chart!
Yolanda Kondanassis is so amazing! Thank you for sharing! I love Chinese folk music and that was brilliant. I had never heard Chanson dans la Nuit (sp?). I loved the “Spanish guitar” section in the middle. Is that piece lever friendly?
Thanks Erin for sharing the info of the Jazz Pop Harpfest.I like this video because he slows it way down and focuses on what the different hands are doing. I’m not sure I’m that coordinated though! 🙂
Wow Jerusha and Patricia! That was amazing! I wish I could have heard the bass a little better. She brought incredible rhythmicity to He’s Got the Whole World just with the syncopation of the melody. The pedal slides also gave it a lot of zing.
It looks like they have a Jazz and Blues focus session at Somerset this year.
Jerusha I love the video you shared. Do you think that the electrified harp helps it sound more percussive?
Thanks Lori! I also love the bisbigliando at the beginning! Something else I’d like to get better at! Being primarily self taught is some what of a disadvantage for learning some of these fun harp effects. In this video by Cheyenne Brown, is she achieving the percussive effect in the second piece primarily by a flat hand muffle?
I’m a big fan of Beth Kolle’s books. A lot of open fifths and time for the bass to ring. I also like the Scandinavian pieces that she includes because the harmonies and modes are so unusual. The duets are pretty versatile as well. I’ve done them with two harps and harp and flute
That fast, there’s going to be some muffle noise no matter what. this may sound more exciting and percussive. however, if it were me, I’d eliminate some notes. The Sylvan is fairly long ringing. Let that sound shine. That’s just me though.
http://www.robinsonsharpshop.com/strings.html
When I had my Heartland I ordered replacement strings from Vermont Strings (the East Coast shop) and was really pleased with the customer service.
