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You can hear ‘The Crystal Spring’ as the soundtrack here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty_XgIbH1hQgeorgina, are you familiar with Ray Pool’s ‘The Crystal Spring’ book?
It would work well for an English theme harp solo because it’s a set of fifteen English folk songs arranged for lever or pedal harp than can be played through as a continuous piece.Barbara,
You don’t have to tell me, of all people, to do a google search. I spent about ten minutes searching but nothing came up! Where did you find that bit? Very helpful indeed!
~Sam
Maria. I am so sorry and I apologize. I had no idea that you think “experience”, “knowledge”, “learning”, and “antagonism” are synonyms.
Kim Robertson’s Celtic Christmas II is comprised of all harp and cello duets,
beautiful album, highly recommended.Zach,
I don’t have much experience with the Laskine competition, but here’s what I can say Israel vs. USA.
The Israel competition is generally considered to be more prestigious – but this is mostly because it’s been around longer. The repertoire it chooses is usually more on the “standard rep” side of things, and yes, it does focus on original compositions for harp. I’ve heard that the USA competition is perhaps a bit nicer, too. In general, it will mostly come down to which repertoire you’d like to play.
Another consideration is that the USA competition is in the USA… it’s not that far away and you speak the language of the natives. Also, you don’t know what will be happening in the middle east in 1.5 years, so that’s another aspect.
~Sam
Hi – my guess is that you don’t have Jack’s style 3 – first of all, it was entirely cobalt blue with the gold including the soundboard, and second, I saw it used in a video from the San Francisco Opera after your purchase date – sorry to hear about your problems with the repairs on you 3 –
JohnThe technique works great to get something in your hands, but it’s terrible for memory. You have to work to make sure that you really know what your hands are doing.
~Sam
Thank You Edella Venzina. You really get it. All harps have their place. The original Harpsicle Harp was meant to roughly follow the lines and tension of Gothic and Ren. Harps. Go to You Tube and look up ” chimarot” an Asian girl, and” happyharps09″ a girl from Germany. They both do a great job and there recordings are good. As of April the new Harpsicle Harp G3 has been introduced which has a larger voice and tighter string tension.
What you are saying is that you prefer the sound of the cello and the bass rather than a violin or a viola. That is YOUR opinion and agenda. I have built concert lever harps for some of the best known harpist in the world with three Grammy winning recording (including Yo Yo Ma and Paul Winters) a feat that the harp makers that you mentioned could only hope for. I would love to sell the public only these harps, because they are so rich and responsive. However again you are missing the point. It’s not a point of agreeing or disagreeing, it is a mind set of limiting only thousands of people to enjoying playing the harp rather than allowing hundreds of thousands of people to enjoy playing the harp. Oh, did I forget to mention that most of our customers are TEACHERS and as you mentioned “PROS”, and there are many harpist that have dedicated their whole life to the lap harp and historic harps with no levers at all. Chryl Anne Fulton is a prime example and if you never heard of her you should do some homework. By the way, she has a pink Harpsicle harp. As the violin is not lesser than a cello, a lap harp is not lesser than a 34 , 36 or 47 string harp. And remember, the Harp Column is a very very small and almost invisible part in the whole world of harps. Having a keyboard in front of some people does not make many on the forum an authority. The harp is a wonderful and a simple instrument to play and the plan should be to get more harps in peoples hands. The harp should be as popular and as easy to obtain as a guitar.
Maria Myers
You are truly missing the point! There are literally thousands of people learning to play and enjoying the harp in battered woman programs, children at risk programs (San Francisco, New York, Mexico, Africa) UN cultural exchange programs, Veteran programs, Irish School of Harp in Ireland, church harp choirs, school harp classes, Chinese Harp Ensemble,
classes in Germany, Norway, France and on and on .People that would never have the chance to hold or play a harp. All this because of the Harpsicle Harp (which by the way Maria can come fully levered) and the wonderful teachers many of whom are tops in their field. Some will probably stay with the Harpsicle Harp and others will move on to other harps. With your philosophy these wonderful things would not be happening. Not one size shoe fits all.
