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We had a great teacher. She constantly corrected us, and it has paid off. We were frustrated for a year, then things rather quickly came together. In other words, our progress sped up. We first played in public after a year very shakily, but people clapped so we were encouraged to keep playing out. We slowly got better at it.
We haven’t changed anything on it since soon after we got it, so it keeps going. We don’t even visit very often.
We have used Yola since Sept. ’09. Never heard of Weebly. Don’t think they get spam. It seems like a good site. Not hard to set up. Of course they want you to upgrade for money. We don’t get any emails from them.
The Roland is a stereo amp, 2.5 watts each channel. We got it at least 3 years ago. We use it with our Rees Grand Harpsicles, which came with pickups built in. For our purposes, small audiences, it is quite adequate. It also runs on 6 AA batteries, which last about 15 hours. Here is a link —
http://www.rolandus.com/products/details/900Our amp is the Roland Cube Street, stereo, 8 amps. We use it with our Grand Harpsicles, which came with built in pickups. They are stuck on the back of the soundboard. For our purposes, medium amplification, they work great. We use a little of the built in EQ, mostly to boost the bass a little, and we can EQ each harp separately. Here is a link —
We got a Roland amp from Sylvia Woods. We love it and we can both plug into it. We usually don’t turn up the volume very much at all.
We were able to play narrower spacing right away, but it felt very different and we made lots of mistakes. We were doing pretty good after a few days, but once in a while even now the spacing feels odd, like we revert back to the spacing we played for many years and miss an interval. It is not a problem anymore though. One of us has long fingers and does not have a problem. If your fingers are very fat, perhaps there could be more buzzing on adjacent strings. On the other hand, we feel we just have to be more accurate in our placement on the strings.
We started harp lessons at 29 and 28 years old with no previous musical training and have been playing for 35 years.
