I burnt my fingertips a bit last night, and practised anyway, thinking it would help me be a bit lighter on that side. Which it was, as well as being not a little painful!
I drilled the fast semi-quaver phrases in the Haydn 44 part, very very slowly. The best fingerings we could come up with as a section (with the help of our tutor) still involve two shifts across two bars. Which doesn’t sound too bad until you think about the Allegro con brio aspect of it, and then two bars doesn’t seem like very long at all.
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Geoff
15 January 2008 at 11:35 am
Thought of you this morning – Radio 3 4:12am Bernhard Molique – Six songs without words for accordion and harp. Thought it might inspire you. Though it’d probably inspire you to take up the harp…
Rock on
Geoff
Erin
15 January 2008 at 12:25 pm
Heehee, you know me too well Geoff, you’re so right. I’d be obsessing about the harp in no time. I already harbour desires in that department, but have kept them under control because a)the harp looks truly hard to learn, b)they’re huge and our flat is 450 square feet and c)they’re a bit expensive.
I will track down that recording on the beeb!
Geoff
15 January 2008 at 2:55 pm
And they say that harpists spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune. But wouldn’t a little one fit nicely in that corner between the sousaphone and the portative organ?
Keep Busy
G
Erin
15 January 2008 at 3:50 pm
Yes, any other time harpists have is taken up with sweet-talking people into carrying ‘their gilded furniture’.
Just watch, in three years I’ll have one taking up most of the lounge.