the_happy_honker
123 posts
Jul 07, 2012
4:43 PM
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Teach gapping. Along with the techniques for playing the harp, teach them how to set it up. Teach them that, yes they can take their harp apart (no, they won't break it) and understand it and make simple adjustments to it.
My appeal is because I recently met a harp player who was having trouble with the roll-off from the 2 draw bend to the 1 draw. The 1-draw would "thunk" harshly as he was unable to release the bending force on the 2 fast enough. Six months of working on it had helped very little.
So I asked if I could take his harp apart and after a little persuasion he said OK. I lowered the gap on two blow and raised the gap on the 1 draw and 3 minutes later, problem solved. Turns out he had been taking lessons for 3 years and had never been told about how bends work or how to adjust gaps.
His experience pretty much parallels my own. I've been playing for two years and if it weren't for MBH, I wouldn't know either. So I gave him a short course in gapping as best I could in a noisy bar. He was very appreciative and I have a feeling he will follow up on it.
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shadoe42
197 posts
Jul 07, 2012
5:21 PM
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I teach basic maintenance and such to those I can. NOT that I am an official, established teacher. But when folks ask me to teach them a bit that is certainly part of the course
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nacoran
5937 posts
Jul 07, 2012
11:11 PM
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I've only ever had one student, and he quit after a few months when he thought his harp gave him a lung infection. I managed to talk him through repairing a buzzing reed over the phone once.
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