Re: [Harp-L] This has made my day

[robert <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What Gary said...way to go Eliza!!!
WVa Bob

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On Aug 13, 2014, at 5:19 PM, "Gary Lehmann" <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Good for you! Bends happen when you believe you can play them--keep up the
> good work!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Eliza Doolittle <eliza.doolittle@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> I just wanted to tell you that I've felt SO proud this morning. I have not
>> been
>> able to practice much with the harp for the last weeks, and it is only a
>> couple of days ago that I got back into trying to learn to play bendings
>> all right. I was talking harps with a pianist friend, and he was telling me
>> he wouldn't believe that notes other than those produced by normal
>> blowing and drawing could be played with a diatonic harp. So I took my
>> harp out of my pocket, and demonstrated by playing something resembling
>> a C sharp in the first hole. My friend said 'OK, let's call that almost a C
>> sharp'. I moved then on to the second hole, played a rather good F (friend'
>> eyebrows raised), and then an F sharp (friend's eyes open wide while
>> eyebrows still raised). Then I said I was still working on the third hole's
>> bendings. Although I'm still far from being able to play all the bendings,
>> and
>> from playing them well in a 'music' context (not only playing them as
>> isolated notes), I think this has boosted my confidence. Small as this step
>> forward may look, it is the kind of thing that keeps you going when you
>> start to feel you're stuck. Once again, I'm SO proud!
>> 
>> Eliza Doolittle
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gary