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Lizzie, you also can’t edit your posts on HarpColumn and there’s no search function. BTW I love your playing on YouTube.
They’re listed in the description. For example, “Dyads,” and they finish off with an Andean dance called a cueca. Some of the titles are in [Czech?]
I’d like two or three. (1) My antique single-action Erard gloriously restored; a chamber-size double-action–one of the smallest L & Hs or a Pilgrim’s Progress. (2) A Josephus Heritage in cherry or an R-Harps Merlin. (3) A metal-strung modeled after the Queen Mary or the Trinity College but not as fancy.
Seems to me the only pedal harps with fairly light tension are the antiques. Your switching back to the Merlin off and on is probably a good idea.
Well, duh! I did not mean to suggest that Basques were Greek. I have traveled in the Basque country and in Greece.
Note that “front half of the stool.” I had a reaction from playing not harp but guitar (classical). Sitting farther forward relieved it.
For me, it doesn’t have to be the harp–guitar and banjo will do it as well. Even–you’ll think this is crazy–listening to someone else play blues will take me out of the blues.
Generally, painting your nails is not likely to keep them healthy; just the opposite. Aesthetically, the subtlest of semitransparent tones is the least disturbing (for a musician, I mean).
I have a different nail problem; I have longish nails on one hand (play guitar and banjo as well as harp). Yes, it sounds scratchy on the harp. But I defy you to play a fast tremolo on the guitar without nails. The usual devices are not an option, not with classical guitar.
Delve into folk or folklike music. By “folklike,” I mean “They Call the Wind Mariah” or “I Was Born Under a Wandering Star” from musical comedy or “Donna, Donna” and “Rumeniya” from Yiddish musical comedy/Klezmer. None of those is upbeat except the last, but there is “Oleanna” (American folk song) or “La Bastringue” (French Canadian folk).
Just unbelievable! I too would worry about this wacko’s taking it out on the harp if I just walked off. And I would not like to have him driving behind me on the expressway. He’s flat-out crazy.
