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This website/blog is a showcase for the talents and good deeds of the harpists I know. Although I’ve taken harp lessons and occasionally compose tunes on my Celtic harp, I don’t consider myself a harpist--I’m more of an appreciator of harpists and harp music. I’ve been fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of quite a few harp players who happen to be not only wonderful harpists but wonderful human beings. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do. Happy Harping- -
Harriet Marx P.S. You are welcome to submit harp news, articles, and event info if you are a member of this site. Membership is free and your information will be kept confidential--you can sign up now. |
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The Road Traveled to No-C-Notes Students in the dorm with lap harps at the National Resource Center for Blind Musicians (This article originally appeared in Issue #17/Fall 2005 of HarpLight, The Journal for Small Harps.) Diabetes had taken the sight of a 30-year-old budding musician. He wanted to continue with his piano and guitar lessons without having to learn Braille music notation. The musician, Dennis, contacted his local college music department, seeking a student who could help read music to him in an audio format like audio books. This was in 1987 and I was a nontraditional music student at that college, taking music courses and theory while battling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The music department director figured it was a match made in heaven to have two people with "challenges" get together and find a new paradigm, so I was volunteered. This began my life long road of providing No-C-Notes audio music reading, leading to Harp-Abilities and becoming a teacher for college-bound blind musicians at a summer institute in Philadelphia. |
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