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I believe busking is playing on the street for contributions

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Hi Margaret, I choose my Camac Clio because of it’s voice, even tone and

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Thanks a lot, Carl.

Indeed I would avoid placing my fingures in advace if the strings I am going to place are still ringing, I think it is the same thing as you have mentioned. But you seem also suggesting to place in sequence even none of the strings is still ringing/vibrating. Is that what you mean? And do you still place in blocks here and there?

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Thank-you so much for the wonderful pictures of a fabously beautiful harp.

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I would have paid top dollar for a good cart, but couldn’t find one that was even half as good as the one my teacher (who studied with both Granjany and Salzedo) still has that she bought over 40 years ago. It is shorter than the ones you get now; it has a strong large base that easily holds the bottom of the harp and has a beautifully curved cradle that holds the harp securely around the largest part of the soundbox. It has a curved handle that, when in use, holds the harp at a perfect balance without any stress on your arm or shoulder.

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I’ve been here at the harp connection for a short time, and started playing the harp

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Well, I finally made the trip from the Island

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People with lever harps think of it as tuning to the key of Eb because when you tune

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I love that, Cei!! Thanks so much for sharing. I’ll keep that in mind.

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My own axiom each time I practice or preform.

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I can’t remember where I

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My first ‘harp’ was a Mid East one from eBay.

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Then why wouldn’t you teach this technique to the students at first instead of teaching them placing in blocks, if this “placing in sequence” technique is better then “placing in block”?

I am not a professional harpist but I am very interested to know about it as I was taught to place in blocks.

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I’m sorry, I truly meant no offence.
But you have to admit, the whole debate has a tinge of the absurd.
It’s pure Swift, the Lilliputians warring over whether one eats an
egg with the small bit at the top. We’re so small a community,
especially compared to every other instrument, save perhaps the nose
flautists, and yet we further divide ourselves with semantics. Can it
not be a war of witticisms, instead of insult and injury? Usually
musical jokes are so formulaic, but the ones I’ve heard provoked by
the fire of the Salzedo vs. Grandjany debate have been the most
darkly humorous.
Our founders, they were somewhat ridiculous in
and of themselves, hell, Salzedo renamed his pupils and changed their
handwriting to be more like his. Many of the classical harp composers
were the most incorrigible womanisers, beautiful and terrible, it’s
something to rejoice. There is nothing sissy about the Harp, it’s a
glorious instrument of torture we are bound to, to slowly grind away
our fingertips, at our every thought, it’s a fever, a plague. It’s a
warrior’s instrument, and

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