Greetings! brand new on this blog from soggy NH, and after finally getting thru the grueling sign in procedures so I could participate, I am exhausted! That aside, I have recently gotten a new harp, so I have been retuning a lot, and getting used to the touch. It has a much brighter tone and bigger voice than my other harp, and I am loving the difference. I can really see why so many people have multiple harps, depending on the tune, the event, the venue...feeds into harp lust, I am afraid! Oh to be independently wealthy!
I am hoping this blog and you all will help me actually "play my harp today" nearly everyday! For some reason I have allowed other time consuming and not always so rewarding STUFF get in the way. I am focusing on regaining tunes I once had solidly memorized and under my fingers, but have pretty much lost. And working on some tunes in Sue Richards and Grainne's books. I need some more O'Carolan handy!
Wish me luck! Hope we don't all turn to moldy heaps in this weather!
Hey-welcome to the blog!
ReplyDeleteThanks for getting me in! Stay cool!
DeleteHi shadowharp! Congrats on the new harp! What type is it? And what is your other harp?
ReplyDeleteThank you Andee! The new harp is by Larry Fisher up in Winnepeg, Canada. My first two harps were built by David Kortier in Minnesota, but I fell in love with Sue Richards Fisher last summer at Lubec. I am trying to sell my smaller Kortier, which has a piezo strip and an amplifier and can be plugged into the sound system...I thought I would somehow find a celtic band and be good enought to play in a group by now, but life has happened in the intervening years and aside from doing some outdoor weddings, etc, when the amplifier came in handy, I tend to play my first harp- a birds eye maple beauty- who is pretty much "bomb proof", so I feel safer lugging him around. The Fisher is much brighter, and has a MUCH bigger voice, despite beimg a smaller harp.
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