So, when you know that you're going out to play harp all day, you should really not go out the night before and fill your tummy with friend pies. Even vegan fried pies. Especially vegan three bean chili fried pies. . . Needless to say, my tummy feels like a rock tumbler today as I enthusastically look forward to a morning of playing harp. Which, ( Read more... )

I woke to the sound of seagulls this morning. It was uncanny, but not undesirable. I don't think that I will ever get used to it. I swear, a few days ago that I smelled the ocean - not the rotten brine scent of the salt lake, but a real ocean. Maybe it was all the rain that had made it fresh ( Read more... )

MUSICALSTonight, or rather, last night, this being Sunday, Adam and I saw the new "Producers" movie. It was. . . enjoyable. Not as good as the first one, of course. As we were driving home, to get my mind off the fact that my bladder was going to explode, we started talking about musicals in general. I brought up my Queeratre idea and suggested ( Read more... )

Today my ears were filled with sounds that I have never heard before. The music, it rung with tritones, sounding sinisterly glorious. I never thought that I would hear such sounds in a church, let alone the Old South Church. It was a frenzy. Stirred emotions vomited onto the manuals and stops, spewing from the pipes that rose above the pews. ( Read more... )

Well, it's Sunday. . . . yesterday Michael came over for a fun filled afternoon of teaching him to play the harp. . . that was really fun and I enjoyed the day. Because his harp doesn't have all the strings yet, I let him borrow my banjo harp. That really wasn't a hard decision. . . Okay, ya know that I really am very territorial with my ( Read more... )

Okay, I know that everyone has heard of the song, Chantilly Lace by the Big Bopper. . . And I know that if you heard it than you would agree with me by saying that it is a very easy song to get stuck in your head. Now, I have this song stuck in MY head, and I know that if I were to start singing it, then it would get stuck in your head, but I am ( Read more... )

Do instruments find their players or do players find their instruments? I can play a lot of instruments, to be sure, but I am not a pianist, celloist, flutist, drummer, etc. I am a harper. I am NOT a harpist. There is a difference. A harpist being a professional that plays in an orchestra. A harper is someone who is not always a professional, and ( Read more... )

The greatest thing about playing the harps are harmonics. (Which I can't do in a middle of a song or on command, but if I sit at the harp long enough I can) It's where you pluck a string and make it sound an octave higher. Now, how you do this is ( Read more... )

Well, I have had sort of an epiphany while playing my harp today, if you can call it that ( Read more... )