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Carl I don’t always agree with your posts but this one is terrific
really good solid supportive advice
especially the last sentence
it’s good even for professional harpists sometimes we end up doing work on the harp we didn’t see coming
i don’t recall saying that you were banning her from the harp
i recall you saying you weren’t going to encourage her in a harp career unless she was better than everyone else around
sometimes making a living as a harpist is tough
backups are good ideas
I think it is so sad that you are trying to discourage your daughter from doing something she likes. you have no idea what the world will be like when she is older and if you discourage her she might not try enough to be the best and also most harpists are not the best at all things
With all due respect, it’s ignorant to say that your daughter should be better than all of them before you’d encourage her. Many of the ones that seem the best don’t continue and some do and some that you never thought would make it end up on top. The only thing that’s clear is that discouraging someone never helps anything.
there are plenty of harpists across the country that do make a living completely from the harp without a backup and they are not always better than everybody else. if everyone on this forum was honest they would probably tell you that even if they make a living playing harp like me, they can name at least one person better than them in their mind.
you should be encouraging her to talk to other harpists and to observe to see if she wants to deal with making a living this way not just discouraging her
where I live there are about 15 harpists making a living playing the harp
a couple are orchestra harpists and teach at local schools
many make a living teaching and playing gigs
some do celtic harp and voice
some also have income from being married but they also don’t work as much because they have kids
the problem is that sometimes you have to teach people who aren’t good or aren’t respectful of your time and sometimes you have to play for people who aren’t respectful or deal with weird things that you can read in other posts and it’s not the easiest way of making a living and you have to be creative and motivated
but it sure as heck beats sitting at a 9-5 job in a boring cubicle for me at least
I asked because Zach’s post said something about a letter saying a competition had been postponed due to war and I didn’t know if that was a hypothetical statement or if he knew something that we didn’t
I looked on their website too and didn’t see anything
2 of my students are working towards that
I’d feel bad if the competition was postponed after encouraging them to work for it of course knowing the repertoire is good no matter what
…..I’ve had numerous people contact me privately to either complain about this site or to say that they are leaving, and the usual reason is that they tire of the rudeness and personal attacks that some of the harpists (and even harp makers) engage in…..
I was writing in agreement with
