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

[Wilbur Euler <dubyail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One Small Step Can Save Your Life by Robert Maurer. A great book about small steps in many things suggested to me by Richard Sleigh. Small steps lead to better playing and give us hope.
Regards,
Wil

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> On 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
>