Re: [Harp-L] Playing While Driving

[Larry Marks <larry.marks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah. I live in a small I-5 community at the North end of the State of 
California. I am pretty used to getting in my car, turning on the cruise 
control and driving the 60 miles or so to the nearest city - Redding, CA 
or Medford, OR. When I am driving by myself, I certainly pull out my 
harp and play. I turn the radio off and do regular practice stuff - 
scales, arpeggios, riffs and tunes I'm working on, but never new stuff. 
Also with my trombone mouthpiece.

Personally, I don't find it terribly distracting - no more so than 
listening, really listening to music. Also, I regularly operate two-way 
radio equipment from my car, and that has the potential of being much 
more distracting than the rote practice I do in the car. I also limit my 
playing to my I-5 trips.  I-5 may be the most boring road in the 
country, so the playing helps keep me from nodding off.

I don't try terribly hard to hide what I am doing, but I don't wave the 
thing at cops or other drivers either.

Well, enough rationalizing...

  -LM