I brought my harp to Pennsic this year, vitalized by the fact that were several A & S courses dedicated to harp playing.

There was a 3-part technique course that I missed the first part of for various reasons, but I joined in on the second session and went to the final session a few days later. I learned much...

My main motive for the technique ( Read more... )

So the last week or so I've set down the regular harp exercises in order to learn a couple of simple songs to play at O'Choda's Summer Gather in a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

So after a weekend of doing other things than noodle around with my harp, I returned to my practice in earnest tonight ( Read more... )

As I am progressing in learning how to read music in addition to playing the harp, I was flipping through some of the songbooks that I hope to actually start playing through some day and ran across a group of notes known as the triplet. It took a search of the internet to understand what I was looking at with those notes and the number 3 bracketed ( Read more... )

So after 14 years of owning a 22-string lever (aka Celtic, aka folk) harp, I'm making a better than half-hearted to attempt to learn how to play it. It wasn't really any one moment that inspired me to finally learn a musical instrument, but I think a convocation of LARPing inspiration, feeling the desire to do something /not/ at a computer ( Read more... )