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All posts in Practicing Inspiration

Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 1): Six Unorthodox Ways To Prepare for a Background Harp Gig

6 years ago

1. Practice with a light shining in your face.

Once I played harp for a lovely wedding reception on a cruise boat. Dramatic clouds spotted the western sky as a glowing …

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Enjoying the drudgery

6 years ago

Sometimes a piece reaches that in-between stage where it can truthfully claim almost all the right notes, correct timing, and a decent set of dynamics. And there the piece languishes, …

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If At First (You Feel Like) You Don’t Succeed…

9 years ago

The room swirled with girls in cute dresses and guys in slacks and suspenders: tennis-shoed young people dancing to the sounds of jazz. Last night I went swing dancing with …

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Harp and Taekwondo | Comparative Essay

9 years ago

Written by special guest author Emma Dangers. Miss Dangers currently studies harp with Stephanie Claussen.

What do harp strings and board breaks have in common? On the surface, not much, until …

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