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Hi Fearghal- I was wondering if you were familiar with the piece from hearing it.
I don’t think there are many places in it where the harp parts are too prominent, so you might get away with cutting and pasting from the score and come up with a result that was satisfactory.
It’s a wonderful piece!
OT, but isn’t it nice that they chose a HARPIST to be in a picture of a harpist?
I get so annoyed an the numerous commercials that are produced using non-musicians pretending (horribly) to be musicians. There is a particularly offensive one on TV here on the east coast portraying a female conductor. Would it be TOO difficult for the ACTRESS to learn how to make a legitimate beat pattern?
Thank you for allowing me to vent.
I also have a BLevins Avee and although the tension is definitely lighter than a pedal harp, my teacher who is a VERY strong pedal harp player got a beautiful tone from my Avee and NO trouble with over pulling. Mine also came from the discounted list and with full Camac levers it was less than $2000.
Kay do you just buy this in a health food store as Gelsenium?
For the first 50 or so years of my life I had NO anxiety about performing in public. Now all of a sudden I’m really really having problems. I tried Bach’s Rescue Remedy the last time I played in public and it either didn’t help at all or I was such a mess that it felt like it wasn’t helping but I would have been even worse if I hadn’t taken it.
Have a look at the Blevins Harps website. Their special priced harps are very nice. I have an Avee that sounds wonderful.
The Ford Flex is terrific. We also drove the Taurus X and the Edge before we bought, and all of them are low and wide and have a square area in back.
The Flex has the lowest gas mileage but they have wonderful safety ratings.
I’d take a Ford before any other vehicle available.I don’t know how much the cost is, but having a fragile instrument “foamed” is a great way to keep it safe.
I think the stuff is blown around the instrument in some sort of wet or mushy consistency, and then it dries to a solid foam.
Don’t forget the L&H CPO lists. A very nice instrument can sometimes be gotten for less than $8000 but you have to watch and be able to jump when you see one.
My teacher is the kindest person on earth, but I can never play in my lesson as well as I do at home.
For me, it’s definitely expecting myself to be perfect, and I also get totally freaked out if I think my teacher will think I haven’t practiced enough.
Do you feel that the music in your assigned lesson is appropriate to your abilities and goals?
One other thing- when you say you can play your music perfectly at home, are you sure that you’re playing it at the same tempo when you take your lesson?
I have a tendency to try to do everything faster in my lesson than at home.
