Love you Therese, my family has been listening to your beautiful music since the late 90's and there is no other sound on earth quite like you. May God continue to bless all your days!
You are a dear. Thank you for your love, encouragement and prayers. The harpistic life, and deep listeners like you and your family, I can hardly count my blessings. All good graces to you and yours too! 🕊🕯❤️
Thank you Christopher, you too have a very special name, a very special patron saint. It is dear or you to comment. You bring all that love and strength to the world, the substance that you feel is lifted. Blessings and song!
You have a very special name Christian! Thank you for your kind comment. It never occurred to me to look at things of my own work online, so my 4 month silence was not cool attitude, just head and heart in a score or in the garden. Thank you and many blessings!
Not wrong shoulder, but I can help. In harp history, the size, weight, construction, stringing, string tension, string spacing, holding positions, fingering systems, repertoire and performance technique changed repeatedly through history as differently built harps emerged in and from almost every time period and culture in the world from antiquity to the present day. Each instrument throughout history is played well and to the greatest artistry when possibilities and limitations are properly understood and creatively highlighted, even to the choice of woods used by the luthier. The double action concert grand pedal harp treasured in a contemporary symphony orchestra is a fairly recent phenomenon, developed in at least some part as a result of the orchestral works composed by Wagner and Tchaikovsky and others. The fully mechanized 47 strings of the concert grans pedal harp can weigh in at more than 80 pounds and towers at a little more than six feet in height. This harp is universally played on the right shoulder. But that does not mean that earlier traditions, or other traditions, or earlier traditions and cultures which highlight left-shouldered performance practice are playing on the wrong shoulder. That being said, hooked harps, single action pedal harps and double action instruments emerged over a period of time from the 17th to the 20th century. Prior to that, there are countless other harps, many of which feature zero or little mechanization. These harps historically were often played on the left shoulder. For example, musicology and iconography both document a vast array of harps, large and small, from antiquity to the present: large Egyptian and Persian harps, smaller bow harps, frame harps, wire strung harps, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance harps, bray harps, Welsh triple harps, neo-Celtic levered harps, etc. Some of these harps tower over the height of an adult, and others are a mere 20 inches in height, held more or less on the lap. You might be interested in harp history, its scholarship and detail are very exciting. See works by: Rimmer, Rensch, van Schaik, Dobronic-Mazzoni, and anthologies edited by Midgley, Sturrock and Proud. I would also recommend the works of one of the greatest scholar-performers of our day: the harpist Ann Heymann. She too plays left shouldered.
@@thereseschroeder-sheker2414 I thought it might have been a left handed harp. I’ve only ever seen, been taught, or played with the harp on the right shoulder. I have three lever harps, one is a small lap harp I built, I have a wearable electronic harp, and my floor lever harp. My pedal harp arrives next year!
Love you Therese, my family has been listening to your beautiful music since the late 90's and there is no other sound on earth quite like you. May God continue to bless all your days!
You are a dear. Thank you for your love, encouragement and prayers. The harpistic life, and deep listeners like you and your family, I can hardly count my blessings. All good graces to you and yours too! 🕊🕯❤️
Thank you! Ms. Schroeder-Sheker and her work is an inspiration and a gift to the world.
Thank you Christopher, you too have a very special name, a very special patron saint. It is dear or you to comment. You bring all that love and strength to the world, the substance that you feel is lifted. Blessings and song!
One one hand, Therese renews my faith in humanity and on the other, she also makes me think that Angels really exist...
You have a very special name Christian! Thank you for your kind comment. It never occurred to me to look at things of my own work online, so my 4 month silence was not cool attitude, just head and heart in a score or in the garden. Thank you and many blessings!
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Could you tell me what kind of harp you are playing?
It is a Dusty Strings harp with five octaves. , the Dusty Strings company is in Seattle, manufacturing.dustystrings.com/harps/browse-models,
Why is the harp on the wrong shoulder?
Not wrong shoulder, but I can help. In harp history, the size, weight, construction, stringing, string tension, string spacing, holding positions, fingering systems, repertoire and performance technique changed repeatedly through history as differently built harps emerged in and from almost every time period and culture in the world from antiquity to the present day. Each instrument throughout history is played well and to the greatest artistry when possibilities and limitations are properly understood and creatively highlighted, even to the choice of woods used by the luthier. The double action concert grand pedal harp treasured in a contemporary symphony orchestra is a fairly recent phenomenon, developed in at least some part as a result of the orchestral works composed by Wagner and Tchaikovsky and others. The fully mechanized 47 strings of the concert grans pedal harp can weigh in at more than 80 pounds and towers at a little more than six feet in height. This harp is universally played on the right shoulder. But that does not mean that earlier traditions, or other traditions, or earlier traditions and cultures which highlight left-shouldered performance practice are playing on the wrong shoulder. That being said, hooked harps, single action pedal harps and double action instruments emerged over a period of time from the 17th to the 20th century. Prior to that, there are countless other harps, many of which feature zero or little mechanization. These harps historically were often played on the left shoulder. For example, musicology and iconography both document a vast array of harps, large and small, from antiquity to the present: large Egyptian and Persian harps, smaller bow harps, frame harps, wire strung harps, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance harps, bray harps, Welsh triple harps, neo-Celtic levered harps, etc. Some of these harps tower over the height of an adult, and others are a mere 20 inches in height, held more or less on the lap. You might be interested in harp history, its scholarship and detail are very exciting. See works by: Rimmer, Rensch, van Schaik, Dobronic-Mazzoni, and anthologies edited by Midgley, Sturrock and Proud. I would also recommend the works of one of the greatest scholar-performers of our day: the harpist Ann Heymann. She too plays left shouldered.
@@thereseschroeder-sheker2414 I thought it might have been a left handed harp. I’ve only ever seen, been taught, or played with the harp on the right shoulder. I have three lever harps, one is a small lap harp I built, I have a wearable electronic harp, and my floor lever harp. My pedal harp arrives next year!