[Harp-L] Beginner harp

["John F. Potts" <hvyj@xxxxxxx>]

David,

It's going to be difficult to progress on any harp without practice,  
but your recently purchased set of Lee Oskars are as good to learn on  
as any diatonic harp. If they are in good condition they will be very  
air tight and responsive, so you won't be fighting the instrument. If  
you experience problems, you will have confidence that it's not the  
harp so you can be purely motivated to focus on your technique.

A word about practice:  Progress is not linear.  By this i mean that  
if you practice regularly, you may struggle for quite a while without  
seeming to improve a whole lot then all of a sudden you will get much  
better relatively fast. It may come as a quick jump rather than as  
incremental step by step improvement. This may be a function of how  
the "muscle memory" phenomenon works, but it does take regular and  
relatively consistent practice before you make a "breakthrough."   
Moral of the story:  don't become frustrated if you practice and you  
do not seem to be progressing.  If you keep at it, improvement may  
come suddenly and dramatically.  But you have to practice for a while  
with fairly regular consistency to get there.

FWIW,

JP