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Post by Misty on Feb 9, 2023 13:06:37 GMT
I'm sure you will sound angelic!
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Post by Zi on Feb 9, 2023 13:25:06 GMT
I'm sure you will sound angelic! Actually, the harp always sounds divine to me whatever. The clarinet sounds awful. I get the occasional note that sounds lovely but the rest sound like angry bees in a jam jar!
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Post by Zi on Feb 9, 2023 17:25:59 GMT
The harp is in tune!
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Post by pavane on Feb 9, 2023 18:51:51 GMT
Well done! One of my many mistakes was not choosing an instrument that actually sounds nice when left to its own devices.
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Post by Zi on Feb 9, 2023 19:21:20 GMT
Well done! One of my many mistakes was not choosing an instrument that actually sounds nice when left to its own devices. I will upload some harp. I'm not convinced it's totally in tune but it sounds fine to me and Mr Z (from a distant room) said it sounds fine to him. But the reality is it's probably impossible to make a harp sound bad...
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Post by keff on Feb 9, 2023 21:12:06 GMT
Happy to report the E peg is holding again. I ended up taking off most of the Hidershine antislip paste which was producing a waxy surface that was anything but antislip. I was grateful to be able to tune the violin and have my ten minutes of practice tonight although I didn't tempt fate and left the E string about a semitone flat. Welcome Misty. I must say to both yourself and to Zi that a harp does appear to be a very nice instrument for this challenge.
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Post by Zi on Feb 9, 2023 21:44:29 GMT
Great! I'm glad you can continue with the violin! I didn't realise that violinists had to perform those kind of things!
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Post by Misty on Feb 9, 2023 23:09:20 GMT
Well done! One of my many mistakes was not choosing an instrument that actually sounds nice when left to its own devices. I will upload some harp. I'm not convinced it's totally in tune but it sounds fine to me and Mr Z (from a distant room) said it sounds fine to him. But the reality is it's probably impossible to make a harp sound bad...
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Post by keff on Feb 10, 2023 7:26:19 GMT
I emailed a friend yesterday seeking advice about the slipping peg. In his reply he reckons it was eight years before people stopped laughing at his violin playing efforts!
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Post by Zi on Feb 10, 2023 7:32:03 GMT
I emailed a friend yesterday seeking advice about the slipping peg. In his reply he reckons it was eight years before people stopped laughing at his violin playing efforts! Then people were very unkind! The violin is notoriously difficult to get a good sound from in the early days. I don't want to make the piano seem easy but it has one big advantage over a lot of other instruments and that's when you hit the right note, it is the right note! The recorder isn't like that and maintaining the right note on the recorder when it's a long, quiet note - is really difficult. The violin has that issue and it's a strange stance which you have to learn to maintain. You haven't chosen an easy instrument to play well quickly! Did you get a cure for the slipping peg?
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Post by pavane on Feb 10, 2023 7:59:47 GMT
I emailed a friend yesterday seeking advice about the slipping peg. In his reply he reckons it was eight years before people stopped laughing at his violin playing efforts! I read somewhere a clarinet player saying it took 3 years before he thought he sounded ok, and I thought that sounded a lot - 8 years puts it into perspective! I agree with Zi, a bit mean to laugh for that long. Anyway, I'm really impressed that you're doing this and still going. I have got absolutely nowhere with it. While sorting through some stuff the other day I came across the bag of kazoos we used to keep in the car when the kids were young. But I've already mastered that so it doesn't really count for the challenge
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Post by pavane on Feb 10, 2023 8:06:32 GMT
This probably sounds like a silly question, but it is something I wonder about from time to time: why does one see so few men playing the harp? I have long had a general impression that even with the most conservative of orchestras, if there is a harp, it's always a woman playing. I was reminded about this because of Misty and Zi both playing. I looked up this list of famous harpists. I don't know how serious it is given that the number one is King David, but of the remaining 14, 12 are women. I've heard of Andreas Vollenweider though I only knew of him as a composer, and I've never heard of the other one.
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Post by Zi on Feb 10, 2023 8:23:14 GMT
King David. Wow. I'd like to hear some of his recordings. Are there male and female instruments maybe? Most rock guitarists are men. Actually, most rock stars are men! (Thinks wistfully of Siouxsie and the Banshees) misty - which books are you using? Have you any suggestions? I got mine out yesterday. What I've lacked in practice and application I've made up for in books!
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Post by Zi on Feb 10, 2023 8:25:00 GMT
pavane - How about the spoons? (aside - You did put quite a lot of constraints on us BTW). Piano? You've already got one of those!
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Post by keff on Feb 10, 2023 8:59:12 GMT
There is a man that plays harp in one of the orchestras regularly seen on TV but I can't remember which orchestra!!! Could be BBC symphony or BBC concert or even perhaps the John Wilson orchestra.
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