>are there any drum harp duets? I only ask because some of my friends
>have jokingly offered to play drums as accompaniment for my harp.
No, there are no drum harp duets. The traditional percussion
instruments for harp accompaniment are gamelans and 12 pound muzzle
loading cannon.
<does anyone else feel like a blithering idiot?? I'm impressed.
Actually I am a blathering idiot myself. You must have a title of
nobility to be a true blithering idiot. You are impressed that you
are a blithering idiot? The point is well taken.
>> Do harpsichords use similar gauge wires to harpsichords?
>Wait, this is a trick question, right? Kinda like, "Was Grant buried
>in Grant's tomb?" :-)
Egad hoisted on my own harpsichord! I of course meant the statement
vice versa...or whatever.
>Be that as it may not many harp people select low tensile iron or
>modern high tensile steel wire for harps, though, because the scaling
>is considerably longer than for brass/bronze and it needs to be closer
>to the critical stress (end of elastic range) to sound good.
That is one of the things I am unsure of. I believe that some
harpsichords used brass for the lower register in conjunction with
iron for the higher register and the notice on the traditionally made
strings was unclear as to whether the string maker was making brass
strings by equally traditional methods, though I suspect that the
annealing of brass is of far less consequence than that of iron.
<Who here actually plays in public while drinking beer, wine, whiskey,
<whatever? I don't think I will ever be good enough to do this and still
<keep a good head of steam going.
Practice...Practice...Practice.
If I were to perform it would be essential that the audience had
more than their share of alcohol.
Ed Margerum
emargerum@mecn.mass.edu