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M.51, I have the a-sharps printed.
m.60, d-natural is moved to the next bar (written in by hand)
m. 73, I have g-naturals
m. 115, I have c natural
128, A-flat is in the last bar of the fourth system of page 7
134, scale of flux is b, cflat, d, esharp, f, gsharp, aflat, followed by cnatural, then a cflat, the next flux is d, esharp, f, gsharp, aflat, bsharp, cnatural.
I lost track of 164, but the alternation of g major chord and a-flat chord continues, the descending passages have b-flats, but they go back to b-naturals.
What I mean is, as bad as it is, there are even worse things, so there is always some tiny thing to see as good. As I said, from all I hear, to get in here depends on having a person to sponsor you and to have, most of all, a very good lawyer, which, sadly, means money to spend. Canada may be a different story, or
I don’t think you can really crowd-source learning the harp if you have a teacher. It isn’t fair to the teacher, and it will be confusing for you. A little patience is nowhere near how much you need to learn the harp.
Your phone is probably public anyway. If you search the internet for phone numbers, you can often find them.
American harps use maple. I am not familiar with the properties of beechwood in a harp. You have to ask a technician like Carl about the measurements.
I do not know what your options are or could be, if Lebanon could be any better, or Turkey, but as far as I know, when it comes to the U.S. and Immigration, the better the lawyer you have here, the better your chances. It is very hard to get in as an Exceptional Person, but there are other categories and techniques used. If your brother will sponsor you, that should help.
Sometimes you have to act on Faith alone. Survival is important. No one has been laughing at what has happened in Syria. Practicing the harp is a radical statement of what you believe in. It changes the world.
I tried a course like this, and all the students really wanted was a chance to play, get an idea of how to play, and to listen to me play. They had very little intellectual interest in it.
There can NEVER be too many people thinking of pedal harps, in my opinion. I think guitarists work for less, and it is just a more popular instrument, even though they can only play a few notes at a time. If you play your harp in the guitar range (an octave lower), you will find that it is quite different, and more mellow. I think that is a large part of its appeal. And, yes, restaurants do not want to give up tables to have live music.
The Harvard Dictionary of Music.
Books about the music of great composers, especially ones that describe each piece.
Biographies of composers and performers.
Just read and listen a lot.
Nylon is preferable in the first, second and even the third octaves, if you ask me. Gut strings do not sustain long enough to produce good melody lines. They also do not produce as good harmonics. Time was, L & H supplied their harps with nylon in the first and second octaves. There are many reasons nylons can be preferable. But you should not mix between nylon and gut, each area should be separate, and gut sound better on the lower strings.
