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Yes it is possible to switch. Don’t pick pieces with a lot of pedal changes. Karen Thielen is an excellent teacher at San Jose State and Santa Clara Universities.
You can order a catalog of orchestral parts from Luck’s Musical Library, and go through it mark which ones have harp in them.
My feeling is that John Doe is an employee of a harp company, or perhaps a relative who hears the gossip, or a technician. Not too many other people hear or care about the details of what is made where and odd harp stories.
To echo Tony, my teachers felt he was such a genius, so far above and beyond their considerable talents and comprehension, that that
Well, I apologize, but as someone who has always had to struggle and known many others who could not afford harps or what they needed, I found it all very irritating and somewhat political in undertone.
ASCAP and BMI used to have printed catalogs that gave instrumentations, and with patience you can read through it and mark all the harp parts there. You might be able to find a catalog somewhere, I got the last one ASCAP had years ago.
I hadn’t thought of compiling a list from it, it would take quite some time, and only go up to the year 1975 or so, and does not include a lot of public domain music.
Do you think that those people knew him? I don’t. He was so far beyond the abilities of any of us, that even if he were, he was entitled, not that he was. No, that is just jealousy or meanness trying to diminish someone great.
Yes I would like to get the Houdy, haven’t gotten around to it yet, and there is so much Damase to acquire I hadn’t gotten to that yet, either.
