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Does she know she’s plateaued?
When I was a new student at 20, I hit a plateau, and my teacher explained to me that’s what had happened. Once I knew that, I didn’t worry about it. It helped me just to know what was happening.I read the obit, but she doesn’t say what he died from or his age. He looks quite young in the photos.
I was 20 and in college when I started.
If you’re a harpist, it will find you.
Like others have said, most people will not turn into a virtuoso.0
I had to take class piano in college, and it was torture. I just don’t think in black and white. My brain is wired to harp strings. I play pedal harp.
I marvel at people who play both pedal and lever harp because I would automatically move my feet.
I played violin with my blind student in middle school orchestra so I would understand the braille better. (I brailled the music for him, and string music has tons of markings….bowings, accents, etc.)
He had perfect pitch and did fine. (only problem at first was keeping the bow in the right place, but we got a bow-right gizmo to put on the fiddle so he could get used to the feeling of where the bow should be) Since all the music had to be memorized, he did not continue in high school.
I was terrible. Couldn’t look at my hands, so I was the one who was handicapped.https://new.harpcolumn.com/forums/
I tried to copy and paste the page, but it wouldn’t copy.
Both of my harps have names.
My LH15 is Hyacynth. (with two Ys because I misspelled it at first, so I decided to keep it that way)She is named after a Mid-Eastern poem:
If thou of fortune be bereft
And to thee alone two loaves are left
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.My Aoyama Étude is Niña, Spanish for little girl.
She was born in Japan, her genre is French (Étude), and her given name is Spanish. Very cosmopolitan.
