[Menvi-discuss] Harping

[Chela Robles]

Well said! Keep the musical wise sayings coming!

On 2/1/12, Bill <billlist1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Ø  Personally, I couldn't play the thing if I couldn't see it.
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> Hmm, might be interesting for you to try it sometime and report back?  Do
> your harps use a different color for the C’s?  Or is it the F’s?
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> BTW, I am not saying that it cannot be done by a blind person.  I am just
> saying that it cannot be done by this blind person.  J  I attended a
> presentation at the CTEVH conference years ago, when it was still called the
> CTEVH conference, where Grant Horrocks had one or two of his students
> demonstrate his “piano geography” approach.  Students seated at the piano
> had to put their hands in their laps.  Then Grant called out a chord change
> and the student was expected to play it without feeling around the keyboard
> to get oriented first.  And these blind students did it!  He teaches his
> sighted students to do the same.  No peeking aloud.
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> But I still say that doing that same exercise with a harp would be much
> harder because the harp is not nearly as stationary as a piano.
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> You have probably heard this wise saying:
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> “Harpists spend half of their lives tuning and the other half playing out of
> tune!”
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> And if you had a dollar for every wise guy who thought he was the first one
> to think of telling you, as you lug your harp to/from a gig: “Bet you wish
> now that you had kept up with those piccolo lessons?”, you would be retired
> on your own tropical island somewhere.
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> Bill
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> Bill McCann
> Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
> www.DancingDots.com
> Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
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> From: menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org
> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of SClark6144 at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:05 PM
> To: menvi-discuss at menvi.org
> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Harping
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> Harp moving is a way of life for me.  I have two harps and move them a lot,
> as I am basically a wedding harpist.  The bigger one is a Style 15.   As
> your wife knows, that is a small concert harp, about 65 pounds, awkwardly
> spread out.  I'm so glad I wasn't able to afford a bigger one.  It fits in
> my Accord wagon.  The other harp is an Aoyama Etude, which is also a pedal
> harp, but smaller at 60 pounds.  It just takes a strong back and a weak
> mind.
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> I think the blind harpers of yore played harps that were quite small
> compared to ours, so you may be getting a glorified impression there.
> Personally, I couldn't play the thing if I couldn't see it.
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