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So put in VERY simple language (I never really understood this but I can SING in pitch) I will have a happier result with my lever harp if I tune it to an electronic keyboard than to an individual note tuner Korg 20? I am almost able to understand the E flat tuning, but after I tuned the harp today I had some problems when playing in different keys. I know I tend to hear sharp but it seems to me that electronic keyboard tuning should balance everything out?
Wegner has been in business for a long time, and the orchestra chairs are wonderful, so I’d guess that the special chairs would probably be very well made.
Audrey I hope you have the most wonderful time ever, a peaceful safe flight, and the best weather in which to see the many shades of Irish green.
First reading your title line I was seized by the vision of someone strapping the Harpsicle to her bosom and flapping her arms wildly and running down a long path and jumping as high as possible when she’d gotten up enough speed.
Although I have no idea whether one would fit into the overhead or not, it certainly gave me a good chuckle. Plan to offer us all lots and lots of posts when you return! Best thoughts–Sherry L.
As little as the first of this year, I was dreading my retirement from being a public school speech therapist, something I have done for the last 35 or so years (except for 3 teaching music). Since I started harp lessons, I can’t wait for retirement to begin. I will have my own harp, my own hours, and my own household obligations. Yipee!
I think Sibelius is HARD TO LEARN. I can turn out manuscripts faster with my quill pen and India ink. It was a huge disappointment to me.
The movie about the music store with Judy Garland, Van Johnson, and S.C.Szakal (sp). Pretty sure there was at least one pedal harp in it. I think Spring Byington “played” it.
All part of an amazing set of synchronous events for me. I was looking online, possibly for some answer to a speech therapy question, and wandered into a harp therapy site. Interesting, I thought, so I did a search for a harp forum, and I think this site was the first listing. Another world! I had never considered attempting harp lessons, although I had admired
While she is walking the beat, you play her piece so that she gets the feel of where the long and short notes go. Then you walk, doing exactly what she’s doing. It may help her to realize, when you do little frisky uneven dancy steps, that she’s doing that when she plays.
Very interesting point, Kathleen. I’ve wondered about this, especially since I’m more used to the relatively easy practice of tuning the chord rather than the individual note when playing orchestral instruments. I feel comfortable tuning the octave intervals on the harp, but when it comes to checking the intonation of other intervals I have to “suspend” my own intonation and go from the electronic tuner. I’m not sure what will happen when I have a harp with levers- I’d have to guess that I’ll wind up having to “learn” some keys for their individual pitch characteristics rather than expecting them to sound right as noted in your quote, even though some will likely sound more right than others.
As an alto, I sharp
As a great fan of the Kodaly Method, I have found that children use better intonation with any instrument or with singing if they use the Kodaly technique of “finding A”. For the first few lessons I use a tuning fork to acquaint even little singers (kdg. and up) to hear what A sounds like. About the 3rd or 4th week I say “Let’s see if you can sing A before I play it”.
Without fail, a few kids will be able to sing A. I tell them that they have to agree with one another, and in time, whole classes, usually around 4th grade level, will be singing A together with good pitch.
