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Thank you all for your replies! (Of course) I’m asking because a friend of the family asked me teach their daughter, who takes piano lessons from my mother with her brothers. I can’t say what her goals for playing the harp are, at age 7, though I do not think they are large, or involving study of harp in college. As they are already coming here for piano lessons, it seems more convenient than going to another teacher. My teacher (who most fortunately for me, has changed my technique:-), who is the next closest to them besides me, has recommended she start her off, I watch how she teaches, and maybe begin teaching her after a few lessons, with some checking back with her. This sounds better to me. And while I’m not sure about “flakey”, she did have trouble practicing the violin after she started the piano (I was the violin teacher for a few reasons, but mostly because I was the only one they could find in town. I’m still teaching other students who take violin and piano, but I can see the difficulties involved, and I am continuing studying on my own about different teaching methods, teaching children, etc.). Thanks again, I really appreciate your comments and advice!
Sincerely,
Madeline D.Thank you very much both of you for the suggestions, though now I’m looking for where I might find a good program for both… Thank you very much for your advice!
Fortunately I don’t have anything near that difficult, but the couple Rutter songs I do have were definitely written on piano.
I did find it odd that it gave specific times for “fun” practice time, though I think part of that is the assumption that you still want to really progress and advance in your technique and all, you just aren’t planning on doing it for a living. I totally agree with the practicing efficiently, though nothing can really substitute the time when it comes to some things it seems. Appreciate hearing from you all, that was exactly why I started the post.
I think this is great idea for getting to know about other harpists our age(even though this post has been going on four years, I’ll introduce myself late rather than never).
I don’t really have any idea where I first heard the harp or what made me think I wanted to play it, but as long as I can remember, I wanted to play one, strange because I didn’t know anyone, but it must have managed to catch my eye at a symphony
Violin doesn’t seem to have the advantage of the harp of naturally sounding nice when playing Twinkle…definitely not easy, though not so
