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@@bigcawkbeats great! Hopefully my channel will some useful information for your lap harp journey.

great to hear

Here is a full tuning guide video. If you don’t have the proper wrench, you can get one off my site. ua-cam.com/video/Zt9pt0ONKkM/v-deo.htmlsi=c0WrSypCf8CyKFQx

@@uryer2359 thanks for watching!

alright, give it a blow. 😀

I'm in Canada and we have our Thanksgiving in early October. Lyre harp not in the cards until I sell some of my other instruments. My music room looks like a music store as it is. ;-)

Btw, did you see my Auld Lang Syne video? ua-cam.com/video/2H4TG-c1UN4/v-deo.htmlsi=BMOWlyQLHVHYInly

Cool, if you ever need any song sheets for these, we sell several different style of music song packs. And other accessories for your lap harp. mylapharp.com/collections/music-sheets-for-the-lap-harp

That song is on my list. Because its a rather short melody repeated, I will probably include it in a medley.

Interesting. Just imagine putting that with Rowan tree. And possibly Scotland the brave.​@@easylapharpmelodies

@ btw, a quick check on the Gmaj harp shows me I can play Auld Lang Syne in either Gmaj or Dmaj without any custom tuning. All the notes are there. I’m thinking of doing a duet with my cmaj Tongue drum and that too has all the required notes.

Cool, I’ll check out your video

The trouble with down tuning a lap harp is that there is such a short distance between to two bridges so on the lower note strings they start to sound "floppy" or sloppy and not nice at all when you go lower than D. I think what might make a difference would be to experiment with different string gauges. Might be a winter project for me. ;-)

Same. I find that the lowest tuning that it can hold is the key of d. The lowest string being a d. I have not tried e minor yet, but somehow, after a couple of weeks of not picking it up, it actually tuned itself down to e major. From f. I have tried d Minor Dorian mode, with the raised six. As in the second scale degree of c major. I have a Russian made lap harp, so that may explain the different tuning experiments that can be done. It has a word in Russian that means quail. I guess the music maker lap harps are the ones that usually stay in the key of g major, but I guess any lap harp can be tuned differently.​@easylapharpmelodies it would be interesting to have a part 2 of this transposition video. You can most certainly use one of my f major lap harp videos as reference. I find that it stays in tune, a lot longer in the key of f major, though mine actually went down in pitch about a half step, the strings still stayed in tune with itself. It almost turned itself to baroque pitch, or what we know as e. As we know, baroque pitch is normally tuned a half step lower than today's a at 440 cycles. So, f major in baroque pitch would sound like today's e major. Add g major in baroque pitch, would sound like today's f sharp, or g flat.

I have a transducer mic (that I sell on my site) that I record into Garageband on my iPad. I then export the audio back to my video editing app on my iPhone.

Yes, I'm toying around with how I will approach the video. I don't want to get too technical and lose beginners but it should be well thought out so folks can get more out of the instrument if they follow my guide.

Here is the video to explain the microphone I'm using. ua-cam.com/video/fbMSCm1W_jI/v-deo.htmlsi=V6Y5RfnXA2Q4zYeM

Thanks for the comment. Please share the video if you can. 🙂

@easylapharpmelodies matter of fact. I already did.😊

@@pprashant4983 Awesome! thanks

I grew up in a musical family and we used to sing songs while washing up the dishes and played a game of trying to sing additional melodies over top of each other. Some chord progressions work better than others. Thanks for watching!

It took a lot of practice to get through it but I still missed a note around the halfway point.

@@easylapharpmelodies are you in Ireland? Or somewhere else?

@@RobertBrown-n3b toronto canada

@@easylapharpmelodies I see! I'm down in Arizona, America.

@@RobertBrown-n3b nice, I have relatives in Phoenix. I visited once and went up to the Grand Canyon as well. A beautiful state!

Originally in b minor. I transposed a full step down to A min or else my harp tuned to G maj wouldn’t have a a string for the highest note of the song (a high A).

I had a super busy work week and could only squeeze a couple of ‘quickie’ videos out to the channel. Transposition video still to come. 😉

The one in the video with wood handle was from Amazon (not a perfect fit) and the other from Music Maker (the one that comes with the Music Maker harp) here: mylapharp.com/collections/lap-harp-accessories

The great thing about these Zither harps is that it takes very little tightening or loosening to change the string’s pitch meaning that one could experiment with a wide variety of tunings. In order not to get too bogged down with the chore of tuning, I recommend using the electronic chromatic tuner as it’ll go much faster. Btw, I love the subject of transposing as it really opens up the possibilities of one’s instrument. I play other string instruments like guitar, mountain dulcimer and ukulele and my capo is never too far away from me. I will definitely be exploring the subject of transposing in a future video.

Cool, I actually just put out a video on the subject, with my lap harp being tuned to f. ​@@easylapharpmelodies

Someof them are still made in Belarus but production is slowly being spread out to other countries like Mexico due to the Russia/Ukraine conflict.