Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Dec 19 2012, 1:45pm
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We made the harp from a kit in 1980
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(I know because we wrote the date on the bottom of it.) I started playing then. I can read music, but on the harp I just play by ear. I had a background in piano and guitar, so with that it was easy to pick up the harp. ( I'm not that good at piano and guitar either, but I've played both of them mostly by ear for most of my life.) The strings are the "white notes" on a piano, so I'm limited as far as tunes. I put the chords in the left hand and the melody in the right. The strings are marked by color: the Cs are red and the Fs are blue, so you can keep track of where you are. Most harps have either pedals or sharping levers that allow you to do sharps and flats, but mine doesn't, which makes it much simpler to play, if more limited But by skipping the occasional note and choosing my key wisely, I can manage a lot of tunes. I play modal tunes like "Cutty Wren" in the key of G, major tunes in C, and minor tunes in Am (or Dm for modal tunes).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories leleni at hotmail dot com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on Dec 19 2012, 1:50pm)
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