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That is a wonderful clip of the aria.
A friend recently shared a video of a wonderful accordion player (really) that still has me somewhat amazed.
I think if a carbon fiber pedal harp comes out, it will be a second harp for most professionals who have it, for outdoor playing
That little guy has a nice voice for something like a Ren Faire. Hmmm, might be a nice consideration for a busking harp too.
We’re not going there again: carbon fiber is not the same as plastic. Repeat on the chalkboard 100 times after school…
Thanks for the responses. I feel pretty comfortable now that a 13″ display laptop will be fine for my needs.
This reminds me, I think it was one of the Israel competition finalists, who said he was really interested in violin or something with more of a singing tone and didn’t know if harp could meet all of his musical needs. I think for sure people experiment with other instruments, and there are many “doublers” on
A lot of people tune harps to 3-flat so they can use the levers to play in the most common keys. If you have lever on the As, Es, and Bs, you can dune to E flat by raising all the A, E, and B levers and the harp will play in C. If your harp doesn’t have levers on those notes, however, it would probably be best to tune the harp to C if you play a lot of music in that key.
Violinists use Dampits all the time and they make some for harp too. You can buy them directly (http://www.dampits.com)
PS – I always buy my new music through the harp stores lime Melody’s and Sylvia Woods, since they usually organize it so well by composer, style, and type of harp. Just a plug for the harp music specialists when shopping new. I’ve always been weird about used books etc. It goes back to college when I was afraid of being led astray by a prior owner’s highlighting in case they ended up with a D.
You might check business listings near large music schools, where students might unload editions they had to study. It will probably be much better for piano music and full scores. Bloomington, Indiana had a large and well-stocked used music store for years.
When I want to sell something with minimum effort, I use Craigslist and would suggest trying it to search for music.
Also, some used booksellers now sell through Amazon, which would give access to multiple vendors at once and ease searching. Usually used versions are listed with the main version so you’d want to search for particular titles or try browsing sheet music. Recently I got a terrific out of print book on jazz by David Baker that way.
But I think the lesser number of harpist compared to pianists and violinists will make te pickings scarcer. It could well be that this post will be the best source, dice at least everybody reading it probably has some harp music.
