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Kara,
There is a product called a Space Blanket, and Sylvia Woods Harp Center knows about them. In “two or three months” when you plan to transport your harp in your car, see if you can cover your harp with one of these, to reflect heat away from the harp.
Willis Music Co. has a book for elementary pianists, available from Hal Leonard Corp. by catalog number HL00415613: I KNOW THAT THEME. There are fourteen themes from classic composers that your student has probably heard during her life: Brahms’ Lullaby, Grieg’s Morning, Haydn’s Surprise Symphony, Mendelssohn’s On Wings of Song, and ten more. The arranger of this collection is Edna Mae Burnam (1907-2007!!) and the notation is large size, to suit young or older eyes. Adapt the fingering, and your ninety-two-old harp student should be able to play and enjoy them all.
My copy was published in 1944 and perhaps some changes have since been made, but in case they have not,
On the picture ad of the Musicians’ Friend store, it mentions that the yellow Crate Taxi amp is no longer made.
Karen,
I was a dealer for Wilfred Smith Harps, before Mr. Smith died and the workers formed a co-op and kept the company going, under a new name, Pilgrim. I owned a Smith Clarsach, 34 strings,
There is a kind of waxy pencil-shaped item, brand name Miniwax, sold at Home Depot and other large stores. Antique dealers often use these to hide blemishes on fine furniture. They come in all wood tone shades.
Saul,
The last I heard, Roslyn Rensch was compiling a “Harp Family Tree” of historical harpists and their prominent students, hopefully from as far back as possible, up to the present day. I gave her a list that Erich Schubert (now deceased) wrote out tor me, that went back as far as Max Saal, his teacher in Germany. I think Patricia John (Houston) also contributed names. Hopefully others will come forward providing their own lineage, and we would all be able to read such a chart in American Harp Journal some day. There already exists a list in the field of violin, in print,
Jean,
At our local Office Depot, there are all sorts of pre-printed forms. Look for the one: Rental of Personal Property. Either use this as it is, or take appropriate information from it and make your own. Use duplicates, one for the renter, one for your files.
Sally, Type Commercial Sight-Reading Books into your search engine. Read down the list and see the hints each book may use to help piano students be better at sight-reading. If you print out that list and take it to a large music store, you could surely see which book or books might be helpful to a harp player. In other words, piano teachers of today
Angela, I have a published version by Lyra Music Company, now in Florida. It has International Copyright, 1984 and should be listed in their online or print catalog. Two selections are bound together in this volume: Phantasy on Themes of Japanese Folk Songs for Flute and Harp, composed by Josef Molnar; amd Haru no Umi for a treble instrument and harp, by Michio Miyagi and arranged by Josef Molnar. This latter is 10 pages long, 124 measures, and aside from two measures using Cb and Gb in glissandos, and a few F# or Fb places, easily altered for large lever harp playing, it has an Em pentatonic flavor..beautiful.
There may be two sets of “Six Sonatinas” by Dussek, since mine, published in 1956 , in Prague, does not contain the more performed and recorded Sonatina in Cm. However No. 2 in F is included,with helpful added fingerings, and written-out turns. The editor, Marie Zunova, used the original Paris print as a guide and writes on page viii: ‘I leave the music part of the Paris print unchanged. Only a few alterations in the system of writing have been carried out (e.g. transposing some notes played with the left hand from the treble to the bass stave) and fingering, pedal markings, phrasing and dynamic marks, which the original print contains only very seldom, have been added.’.
Dear Mr. S.
I used to have this harp part, 16 pages long printed in France, but in August 2002 I gave it away to someone who needed it more: Anna-Maria Ravnopolska,of Sofia, Bulgaria.
