The double version is interesting, and adding it as a middle section sounds nice. I prefer the original because you can hear the melody better, but including both versions definitely works. I play the 22x22 double strung Brittany Harp from Stoney End. I often arrange tunes much like you have been doing. Keep at it! Good job! Annette Ieda.
Yes! This is my Fireside cardboard harp double strung. It was the first Fireside double made. I asked and discussed how I saw a double fireside that would be easy for him to adapt & Dave sent me a kit to build! I love it soooo much. I just added some more levers to it! Now I have 5 levers per octave! And my hands hurt from installing 20 of them yesterday!
Yes, I really love Mahogany Moon but not the retuning of the harp for the G#'s - I have levers on the way so I will soon be able to flip and not retune!
Thanks. Annual SMASH competition time brings out the creativity big time. It's been a while since I wrote a Filk. My teammate was going to do the other one and had life happen last minute so I did that in the last 45 min before the competition closed.
@@kristenbarry_Bardic_Non-Scents Thanks for asking. Making progress, I have learnt the notes but I keep forgetting the last bit and having to recheck how it goes, also having trouble getting one of the grace notes sounding how its supposed to, but making good progress all the same. Its just finding enough time to practice. Have you started looking at what you will play next or will you take a little breather before the next piece?
This is actually one of my late beginner pieces from the Learning the Harp video learning platform. Makes learning songs so much easier! How is your harp progress going?
Just a tip. Pretend your mistake is a gliss to the correct note. Play it quickly and it will sound like a grace note. It works most of the time! Beautiful!
Wonderful progress! I'm in week 5 of Harp Beginnings. I'm jealous of your gorgeous wire strung harp. Did you make it from a kit? The sound is fantastic!
Yes, this is a wire strung harp. I do not play with wire technique though. I play it normally. It is a 26 string harp. An older musicmakers kit I built back in 2023. They still have plans but not kits for this harp. It has a very beautiful and loud sound. Wire tension is pretty tight so it hurts to play it for too long since I don't have calluses built up! My other 22x2 harp is lighter tensioned so I can play it for longer periods of time.
You can never have too many harps. I am working on a 34 string floor harp that will have a full set of levers. Maybe it will be done by Christmas. It is also a musicmakers kit - the Ballad harp. So I have 3.5 harps. I have one I can't play and need to offload- a Paraguayan 40 string harp that needs a little work (but has scent on it that makes me sick), my 22x2 double strung fireside harp with a cardboard soundbox, my 26 string wire harp, and my partially done ballad harp that will be 34 strings. So each of my harps is a little different. I love playing my double, love the big voice of my wire and need a bigger harp (ballad with levers) to be able to play some of the music I want to learn (so I don't have to keep arranging the songs I buy all over again). My small harps go camping and traveling with me a lot.
It's fun to play. I will probably be a perpetual beginner but that is OK. I took 5-6 months away and am just now trying to relearn this one. I spent an hour or more on it today! There are a lot of people who start at my age or older. I think my one harp learning site just had someone start who is 83 or 84; and another in their 70s so it is not that uncommon! This is my only instrument! no background to base it on.
The board is somewhere at my friends house I think. We did this as an entry for SMASH. Which we won (again). This was our 3rd SMASH win for the 2 of us. Our team has changed each time so I'm not sure who else was with us for the third time we competed. We never heard about the 2nd one. It's a lot of fun but a lot of work. I had never heard of it or played before so she had to teach me!
Have you heard Dougie MacLean sing this? One of my favorite songs he does. You could set the volume a little higher on future recordings, I had to turn it up a bit.
I don't know how to do that- I just do it on my phone. These are just practice recordings of stuff to see how I progress. Plus it gets me over the 'ack the recording is on' jitters. And this harp is light tensioned and not meant to be very loud.
