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Rod – I love my dashes – I think of it as my “dashing technique” – Errol Flynn was also quite “dashing”, so I like to think I’m in good company –

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Beth T. – this is an informal thought and idea sharing site – I for one am more interested in content than anything else – Do you actually have some thoughts or suggestions on tuning problems in the wedding situation (in your experience of course) to add to this discussion?

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Beth T – I have 30 plus years of playing harp professionally including hundreds of weddings in all kinds of situations – I stand by my response –

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Hi again – here is a link I ran across with a couple of demonstrations that you might find interesting –

http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/the_orchestra/strings/harps/techniques/

You can probably surf this site for

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If you want to try the repeated note idea, (and I am assuming you are writing for pedal harp)

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Hi Krysty – go to the David Williams Harp Galleries Website link from Harp Column – he has 3 or 4 of them –

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A friend of mine who goes back to the days of Keijan Attl in the 20s and 30s said that in those days in the high humidity strings would break

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excellent advice all around – weddings are really super special events for the folks involved and

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When I saw Mildred Dilling back in the 1960’s in the dead of winter in a heated auditorium, she had a little bag of powder and regularly stopped to “dust” her hands.

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Thanks – he’s also got a wonderful smooth sound and a great playing harp – – –

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I think I have finally figured out how to load the pictures – we’ll see if it works – – – –

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How about Heidi Lehwalder playing the Danses on a 1978 arts channel video or Marisa Robles and James Galway doing the Mozart from about 1985 – I think it was a Lincoln Center program on PBS –

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I think it’s great that you are composing – I think your harp piece would be nice done on a lever harp and also I can hear it on a wire strung harp – I think it would be quite effective –

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