[MusicTlk] learning to play harp

[Ella Yu]

Can you find a teacher? If so, you shjd be just fine.  The 
high-tension strings you're talking about with the concert harp 
should not make a difference because you don't have to press down 
on the strings with your hands as harpists.  The only thing you 
might get calluschs from is plucking.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Eden via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org
To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:57:28 -0800
Subject: [MusicTlk] learning to play harp



Any blind people on here play harp? I'm looking to learn lever 
harp mostly because I hear the pedal harp strings are high 
tension, and I have some arthritis.  I play a keyboard but have 
found  I love the harp sound, and I can find great harp samples, 
but it's still not the real thing.  I am having trouble finding a 
local teacher whose not full or who will teach a blind person I 
could be taught on Skype but I wonder how I'd finagle so the 
teacher could see myself and the harp.  I've thought of a 
26-string or 34-string harp preferably the 34.  Will I get 
calluses that will make braille hard to read? I primarily use 
braille not speech out of preference.  Any harpists, please get 
in touch even off of here because I will pick your brain if 
you'll let me.  Thanks.
Eden

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