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harmonicanick
1296 posts
Sep 08, 2011
10:33 AM
belfast_harper
275 posts
Sep 08, 2011
11:03 AM
It would be great to have played an instrument since the age of 5, but I would rather hear about the players who picked up the harp later in life and managed and managed to 'master' it.

I think Jerry Portnoy started playing harp at the age of 25, does anyone know of any other pros who started playing later in life?
HawkeyeKane
171 posts
Sep 08, 2011
11:16 AM
I believe Smoky Greenwell also started in his mid twenties.

I'm still in between novice and intermediate, but I really started in earnest at 23.
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Matzen
269 posts
Sep 08, 2011
11:22 AM
@belfast_harper: I like where you are going with this! I'd too like to hear about the players who started out later in life (like me), but still managed to become monster players!

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Aussiesucker
904 posts
Sep 08, 2011
2:33 PM
I think this answers the question!
rharley5652
570 posts
Sep 08, 2011
5:14 PM
@ Aussiesucker,.
BRAVO !!!
Now that Kid is a monster player !!
A young Mind is hard to beat !!

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Honkin On Bobo
766 posts
Sep 09, 2011
8:06 AM
belfast,

I think it was Adam who related a story about a student he has/had who picked the harp up in his 50's and who, I believe in 2 or 3 years became proficient enough to be gigging in NYC with multiple bands.

The story was an inspiration for me.

Now the guy was apparently a maniac about practice, I think there was an anecdote about him practicing even while on the can. It was something ungodly like 6-8 hours a day, every day...something like that.

Now I've got nowhere near that degree of discipline/enthusiam/time to do that, not to mention how to practice efficiently. But I figure if it's possible for a guy to do that, then it's certainly possible to get halfway competent (whatever that means) in that period of time, with a reasonable amount of practice.


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