Re: [Harp-L] RE: Harp v. Guitar

[Pic2318834@xxxxxxx]

What is harder, playing harp or backgammon?  Hmm, both can be learned  in 2 
weeks and both take a life time to master.  
 
Pic
 
 
In a message dated 10/25/2010 3:17:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
bkumpe@xxxxxxx writes:

I play  both.  I have played guitar all of my life.  Took up harp a few  
years
ago.  It is very easy to play harp badly.  Probably easier  than guitar.  
One
website says that most harp players have fifty  percent of the skills they
will ever have within a few weeks of picking up  the instrument.  Maybe
that's true for most.  But, playing harp  well is a lifetime pursuit ... as
is any other instrument.  It very  much depends upon what level of skill you
aspire to.  For example,  playing harp well enough to competently play the
horn lead(s) on jazz and  standards will probably take years.  Comparing the
harp and guitar is  an apples and oranges comparison.  Different set of
skills. Same music  theory but radically different execution.  



Bill  Kumpe

Tulsa, OK