Rita wrote:
>To those of you who have been playing for less than four years - How many
>months have you been playing and how many pieces can you play (i.e. in
front
>of an audience, in a public place)?
I feel like the true beginner of the group. I have never taken a harp
lesson nor do I really know much about music. But for the past few years my
husband and I have been performing with groups and as a duo with me on an
autoharp and him on a hammered dulcimer. My dream is to play a folk harp.
Late last fall I got my first harp, a 22-string lap harp, which I found
horribly frustrating. About a month ago, my husband completed a beautiful
34-string Cambria of cherry with a spruce soundboard. It's been wonderful,
but it was almost like starting over. Can I play in public? Not on your
life. How many pieces can I play? Two or three, badly, and a few others
worse than that. But I have determination and even dream harp dreams.
I know that someday I'll make music from my beautiful instrument. I must be
an optimist. I am even talking my husband into a third harp, a 36-string
Tara McFall.
So you see I already have one of the ingredients to be a successful harper,
I have a full blown case of harp lust, even before I can play.
Sharon Skaryd
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Sharon Skaryd
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