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Not to knock the harps you do make, but why don’t you make Wurlitzer designs, Carl? Just wondering. And what makes their sound darker than Lyon & Healys of the same vintage?
I often think of playing the harp as choreography. Your finger touches the string and goes into your hand, but how you move, the way in which you do it and what you do after that affects the music so much!
Wow. Another harp work by Debussy! Just goes to show how unreliable Wikipedia is, it didn’t have it listed, or was it IMSLP I looked at? Same difference.
If you are talking about actual children, I think these harps would be too fragile. I would suggest selling them to a restorer, or investing in restoration and then selling them, recover your money in any case, and get a couple of sturdy newer harps for your lucky, lucky grandkids.
It will also help to do exercises on double thirds and other intervals, like he uses in Idyllic Poem, and the descending fifths and sixths in one hand. There is something about coordination in that passage that makes it so hard, even though it is in some ways simple.
Before you tackle Idyllic Poem, which is quite difficult, you might go into Poem of the Little Stars, which will give you phrasing and harmonics practice, and the Preludes Intimes, if you haven’t done them already, which are excellent mood pieces.
Thank you!
A certain amount can be handled by placement, but not always enough.
I have a tascam and a zoom h2, and I have a pair of sony lavalier mics, old voice mics that are quite nice. Nothing fancy.
There is one really bad transition on the first page, I think, that I try to fake, as it seems unplayable. Does anyone have a great solution for it?
I think the best tip is a recommendation to others to use their services. I wouldn’t object to serving coffee, or lunch if we were friendly. And I might tip if they were offering services for a very low fee. But as a professional, I feel insulted by being offered a tip rather than the rate I asked for. I am not a waiter.
Oh, but you will definitely want to own your own copy. You will re-read it many times, I predict. Yes, it just became available today! We must sell thousands of copies to replenish the fund that published it.
I think you mean this: http://erato.uvt.nl/files/imglnks/usimg/6/6e/IMSLP37724-PMLP11274-Debussy-Printemps.Harp.pdf
Unless you are speaking of another piece, or version thereof, this is a piece for choir, piano solo
