Have You Always Wanted to Play or Sing? Now’s the time!
With COVID dragging on, it’s the perfect time to dust off your dreams of playing the harp, and give it a go! Maybe you have always wanted to sing, but didn’t have the time. Now’s the time! Zoom lessons are efficient, and I record each lesson, so you can practice. Want to play piano? Gotcha covered there, too. In fact, the harp and the piano are cousins, so I often recommend that harpists learn a little piano, too.
No matter what kind of music you like to play or sing, my first goal is to bring our your natural style first. We’ll do that with all kinds of games and workouts that provide that deep foundation. Then you can play or sing just about anything you like, including jazz, classical, Celtic and folk, healing music, and improvisation and composition for the the harp.
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That was lovely, Cymber. I hope you feel better. It made me feel so peaceful and relaxed. Thank you ❣️
What a shame we couldn't hear what Deborah was playing on the harp....this was so full of really great information - has this been re-recorded so we can hear the harp by any chance?
My mother was a professional concert pianist and ALWAYS warmed up playing a handful of the Hanon exercises. And when she was having some technical difficulties, such as perhaps 4th and 5th finger trills, she would go to the Hanon exercise that focused on that and do them until she had the strength and speed back to where she wanted it.
I bought (my father bought for my Christmas gift when we got there😊) a Harpsicle harp soon after my mother died a year and a half ago of a brain aneurysm. I think of my harp all the time, it’s in my room and there isn’t a day I pluck a string. I wish I knew how to play.
come on over to RosalaniMusic.net and apply for lessons. I can get you started! <3
awesome stuff from geoff winder
A terrific journey Claudia! Thanks for sharing. It sounds very similar to mine! I loved harp 4 healing! And I found a great comfort with improvising thru the program.
Please have her come back and be sure to use “original sound”. I couldn’t hear anything she played and that was a big part of her whole presentation.
Yes, we realized the problem too late, and decided to go ahead anyway. we will re-record soon.
I have always heard the nubbin called a nib. Thanks for this video.
Ha, ha ha! This is my first time watching this video and I really love these warm-up exercises! When you did the flower picking motion, the first thing I said was, “Pua”, the Hawaiian word for flower! I studied hula for a few years.🌺
I like it and will share it to my group. Thank you, Tomáš
Thanks for this routine!
Wow I have the same exercise book from my harp teacher. Getting back into playing my harp and this is really helpful for me to find a routine.
This was an awesome interview! Thank you for sharing so many ideas that encourage us to get in touch with our inner voice. I'm inspired!!
Some excellent 🎶 points Cymber!
Oh wow! You were inspired by ME?????!!!! I feel so very honoured, thank you! ❤
Yes! You gave us all so many great ideas!
This is what I’ve been doing, Cymber…
Awesome, Pamela! I love the colors that can come out improvising in this intuitive way.
thanks! u r loveably
Hi Cymber. Great overview, thank you! Also, how can I contact Bee Israel who did the woodburned mermaid?
Thanks so much!! you can contact Bea Israel through Facebook at facebook.com/bea.israel.7. Tell her I sent you! <3
Wow! It takes a few weeks to tune a harp? I have no musical background, so I wouldn't know. Suddenly the harp is really becoming a deeper stronger dream somehow... I just lost my mother March 22nd. Harp is somehow Alost out of nowhere calling to me.. very strongly. What harp would you buy first? I've heard less then 26 strings is losing a good sound. Is an electric acoustic harpsicle something that I should think of too?
I'm so sorry for your loss. The harp is often a way to deal with grief and self-soothing. I usually recommend that you rent a few different harps if you can. But if you are buying a harp, I recommend at least 26 strings and getting a harp that sits on the floor. A good 26+ string harp will have legs that sit on the floor. The harp is much easier to balance that way, rather than a small harp that sits in your lap. Smaller is definitely NOT better when it comes to first learning to play the harp. If you are going to buy, I often recommend Dusty Strings as a good first harp. They have a reliably good sound and are easy to maintain. They are also pretty easy to sell should you decide on a different harp down the road. I'm happy to set up a zoom meeting if you'd like to talk further.
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Great Job! Thank you! In Germany will call it „anchor“.
This is a great and informative video, thank you!
Solid and interesting content. I got into the history of Harps more when I found out they have holy in purifying abilities that can rebuke demonic activity and improve your overall mood and space
So nice! I assume you were playing through an amplifier in this video. Do you have a video where you play the strings in the lowest octave of this harp? Also, why are the lights no longer offered on these?
Yes, this is an electro-acoustic harp. I don't often play the bass notes on this harp because they can get muddy sounding. Instead, I let them ring sympathetically. I'm not sure that light were ever offered on this harp. I have added them...from Music Makers.com
At first glance the red was not looking as expensive as these harps are. But, then I could see it’s color adding to the decor of Christmas, Valentine’s….. so I say, great choice ❤️
I call her The Ruby Slipper!
Hi! Nice vídeo and information. Thanks a Lot! Could You share what software / app do you use to record?
For this video I used Google Hangouts (which I think doesn't exist anymore). Now I use Zoom. :)
What an unexpected and confidence building approach! I don’t yet have a harp but, soon will.
I'm so glad my video was a help to you. Let me know if you have more questions. <3
Oh, you need to move up to Presonus Studio One Pro, it's Super Easy, Drag & Drop, but the Possibilities are Very Expansive. Watch some You Tube videos about it. All the Best
Is there also an acustic pick up in the 26 strings harpsicle? Could you teach me online how to play the harp as a totally blind person?
Yes, if you go to the Harpsicle website, they recommend two different pick up systems, depending on the harp you have. And, yes, I think I could teach a blind person. Contact me for a trial lesson, and let's give it a try.
I'm struggling with my hand positioning. This is very helpful. Thank you.
Happy to help. Stay tuned for more videos coming soon!
wow, this video is already 6-7 years old.. very instructive, thanks!. I'm sorry to but in. Just some stuff about the Paraguayan harp: 1- There were no “Celtic peoples that got to the Andes” the Spaniards who moved to the Andes were 90% ‘Cristiano Viejo’ or Old Christian, as opposed to the Muslim or Jewish converts. 2- In addition 80% of the Spaniards who moved to the Andes were from the Guadalquivir river basin the Castilian kingdoms of Seville and Cordova, what today we call Western Andalusian. 3- The DNA of that region is basically Roman and Visigoth, with lesser elements of Celtiberian and Punic (Phoenician-Carthaginian) the ‘Muslim’ (Arab, Berber, Tuareg, Bedouin or sub-Saharan black) and ‘Jewish’ is less than 6% 4- The Harp was the Spanish Instrument all along the Middle Ages, and since Phoenician times (3000BC) to the Renaissance the Spanish people used to play it as well as the Guitar today. There are ambassadors who were shocked at the dexterity and that ‘everyone’ played as dexterously as any keyboards master of Central Europe. 5- The Spanish took what we call “Arpa Doble” from their Italian commonwealth kingdom of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia; the Arpa Doppia, anc created the Arpa Cruzada, or Cross-String. This allowed to have the flats and sharps with the chromatic tuning 6- So when the Spaniards moved to the Andes (less than 500 people a year for 150 years moved to the Entire American continent, they brought their instrument. 7- Because 90% were single men in their late teens or early twenties they married the Indians girls (Inca, Quiche. Moche, Aymara, Guaycuru, Cario, Guarani…) 8- They found in their new families the wonderful Amerindian musical tradition, and then the Master Luthiers who moved adapted the manufacture of thein new instruments and strings to the new materials; different woods, varnishes, strings, humidity, altitude and then they reproduced the new melodies of the traditional Indian music, mixed with the European. Spanish-American Harps: You have two periods in the Viceregal Spanish American History, the “House of Austria” (Habsburgs) 1500-1700, and the House Bourbon (1700-1898). The richest and most developed kingdoms received more people early on during the House of Austria; Mexico and Peru. It changed during the House Bourbon when Cuba, New Grenada, and River Plate developed. You have classical Spanish harps all the way from the New Mexican Highland, down to the central Valley and Gulf Coast, then 1- “Arpa Jarocha” from Veracruz to Guanajuato and New Mexico, here the the ancient kingdoms of Tlaxcala, Xalapa, Cempoal, Chiapas, etc. the New Mexican harps were lost after the American take over. 2- “The early Antillean harps” (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola) were lost when the population migrated to the Continent, and was substituted by new people under the House Bourbon… the heat and humidity of the islands was not good for harpists. 3- “Spanish Main and Northern Andes” You have wonderful adaptations in the Spanish Main, today Venezuela and the Northern Andes (Paria Peninsula and Colombia) called the Arpa Llanera or the “Plains’ Harp”, (Llano=Plains), and the Colombian Highlands harp (Santa Fe and Santander provinces 4- Andean harps: You have a wide gamut of styles and variations of the Andean Harps during the House Of Austria, since Peru,(all of South America) was the rishest kingdom in the globe. You have classical Spanish harps and adaptations done in Peru, Quito and Cuenca presidencies (today Ecuador), and the Charcas or High Peru Presidency, (today Bolivia) and Chile. 5- Parguayan Harps: they adapt the Andean harps when the explorers sailing up the Plate-Uruguay-Paraguay basin meet the Peruvians coming down south, and they adapt o the dry plain environment…. When king Phillip V the first Bourbon becomes king of “the Spains of Europe and the Indies”, his wife was the French Princess of Savoy. But after she dies, he remarries the Princess of Parma, Mme. Isabelle de Farnesio, Italian. She brought the Italian style to the court and with it the new Italian instrument: the 6 string Guitar, far easier to play and strum than the old bandurrias, mandolins and lutes, that were still very popular in the former Moorish lands of the Guadalquivir basin… With the reforms new peoples move to Spanish America, and bring new styles. So the migration to New Spain and the Antilles was huge; there were as many French and Italians, who brought the guitar with them; mainly to the Antilles, and the Mexican Highlands… So the Harp became a sign of the old blood, as the guitar became a sign of the new one…
Wow, that is amazing information! Could you please cite some sources, so that folks can dig deeper into these topics? Thanks!
@@relaxingharpmusicbycymberl3674 I had it in my computer... before my HD crashed...(*sigh*) You can get it from the general history of Music, the History of Spain and South America (if one is able to skim the rubbish about the Black Legend) ; hundreds of files in the national and archbishopric's archives in the hemisphere... I even got this form some conferences, concerts and NPR, when the interview the musicians and conductors...=)
@@relaxingharpmusicbycymberl3674 Since the Spanish Americas were not colonies but home soil administered as internal Kingdoms, all North America was New Spain, and South America Peru until 1736. IN 1736 the Presidencies (the President was the kingdoms' Prime Minister) of Panama, Bogota, Quito and Cuenca and the Captainship of Venezuela are segregated from Peru as the New Kingdom of Granada to mind Caribbean Commerce, and in 1776 the Presidencies of Buenos Aires, Paraguay, Montevideo (Uruguay) and High Peru (Bolivia) are segregated as the Kingdom of the River Plate, to mind Interoceanic commerce. Each pre-Columbian Indian Kingdom was fully recognized with a Royal Charter and was a Commonwealth Kingdom termed "Indian Republic" with its own laws, Peru had an Elector Prince Council, composed of only Indian Princes. You can search youtube for "Barroco Virreinal" or Viceregal Barroque, also Bolivian, Andean, Peruvian, Missional Barroque (the jesuit Mssions to the Guarani Republics/Commonwealth kingdoms... etc... You had hymns, cantatas, motets, operas, and high masses composed and written in the Indian languages (nahuatle, quiche, moche, otomi, aymara, guarani, quechua, guaycuru, cario etc.) because kings Charles I and Phillip II declared the indian languages official in their kingdoms, and fined 50% of the salary from the viceroy to the parish priest if they did not learn the local official one, I.e., in Texas and NM you HAD to speak Hopi, Navaho or Zia, etc.... ... kzread.info/dash/bejne/mmlpuZpyab3SqcY.html; kzread.info/dash/bejne/oah728OFoMy9n9I.html; Here you have the foremost example: Inca melody in Renaissance Arrangements. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iXuCpaWMeqW2ebw.html. In 1620, when the Pilgrims were getting to Massachussets, Lima had 4 Opera theaters with a dozen theater and music companies that went between Lima, Potosí, Cuzco, Trujillo etc... In 1600, when New York was still a Dutch hamlet, the University of Mexico city organized international contests of Performing Arts, literature, painting and Music...kzread.info/dash/bejne/gYSYsM6FmNuWodI.html
Very helpful explanation y demonstration of finger position placement, how to get familiar with the "feeling" of a fifth. Even without being able to follow what you were doing from the written page, the exercise itself has been enormously beneficial. An audible clarity in tone with even a few minutes of practice! The whole body warm up really resonated. Following your lead, the value of including it before playing is now undeniable. Definativamente a keeper! Muchas gracias.
Oh, I'm so glad that this is helpful. The book is Deborah Friou's Harp Exercises for Agility and Speed for lever and pedal-harps. (There are no pedal exercises in this book). I've been working out of this book since the beginning, almost 14 years. Highly recommended.
I like your detailed explanation what mistake we will make while learning play harp. Thank you very much!
I'm an absolute beginner and the overwhelm is real! This helps me set a structure and foundation. Thank you so much!
I'm so glad this helps. I'm in the middle of recording a second version with less talking, and more play along with a metronome. Stay tuned!
Thank you for your Grand Harpsicle videos! They helped me to make my decision to buy a Grand. I haven't received it yet but in the mean time I am researching amps. Have you a favorite that you use with your Grand? I see Rees Harps recommends the Fishman mini but I'm not ready to spend $529. I currently do not play in public but want to be ready when I do.
Yes, my current favorite is the Roland CUBE Street EX. It is very lightweight, due to new technology for amps in general. It has 3 inputs, which means I can play my harp, sing, and have another player or singer all running through the same amp. It can be battery powered (8 AAs I think) or powered. It's pricey, but worth it if you play out. Around $500. The important thing to consider when purchasing an amp for a harp is that the harp is essentially like a piano, with high highs and low lows. Bass amps are designed for only low notes. Guitary amps are mid-to high. Ideally, look for a piano amp, or an amp that can handle a piano. The next best thing is to hook up your Grand to your computer, and play in GarageBand. It will give you the sound of an amp, and there are lots of fun ones to try in GarageBand. To connect your Grand to your computer, you'll need an audio interface. Focusrite Scarlett or Tascam are good brands and you can get them on Amazon or similar. The interface has a 1/4" jack for the cable coming from the Grand. And it has a USB out the back to connect to your computer. Let me know if you need more help.
@@CymberLilyQuinn Great information! Thank you. I will try the computer version while I work and save my pennies for the Roland Cube! Keep posting those lovely and informative videos. I love listening to you play!!
@@cheryla7731 , Thanks for the kind words. If you haven't already, be sure to drop by my website, and sign up for my newsletter. I post new pieces there, too. www.cymber.com. Have a great day, and thanks for making the world more musical!
My heart broke. I fell in love with the head and especially the sound of the Paraguayan in your other video. John Kovac's website says it is no longer available!
Oh no! I didn't know that. If you live near a harp store, they might sell Paraguayan harps. There are lots of good harp makers.
I think the biggest hurdle for me is picking out a harp.
Yes, this is a challenge at the beginning. That's why I recommend that you rent harps at first, and try lots of them. You'll find that you like the sound of one over another after a while. Check with your local harp store for rentals.
You should duplicate this, or rename it to let others hear the Grand! Harpsicle in the flesh, as it were. Thanks. I only came here from your 'unboxing' video....
Good idea!
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Thanks for sharing this!! ☺️☺️⭐️✨🌟☀️🌙
Greetings from Athens, Greece! TAAP
Hello from Colorado! I have been to visit your beautiful country once, and hope to visit again one day!
Is the string spacing as small as it is on the fullsicle? And how much tension do the Strings have?
Yes, the string spacing is about the same. The string tension is very light. This harp is made to be amplified, so you can make a big sound with a small effort. Hope that helps!
@@CymberLilyQuinn Thanks that helps a lot.
Are your harp lessons free?
The first lesson is free. After that I offer one-off lessons, and quarterly and annual packages up to one year. Private message me, and let's chat...
Hello!, I just have a question,could I get a lever harp but made just like a pedal harp for beginners? Also how much do your harps cost?
Yes, there are lever harps made that look like pedal harps. I don't actually make harps myself, but I would recommend Salvi harps for what you are looking for.
I am excited to see your harp. I have a question when buying a lever harp how does it shape will affect the harp like some harp have curve at front, some just straight. Which one to choose for beginner who never play harp?
That's a great question, Ali. You're talking about the pillar, also known as the post, of the harp. I have harps that have straight pillars and one that has a curved pillar. It doesn't affect the sound. The shape is mostly a decision of the harp maker. For beginners, I recommend getting a harp with 26 or more strings, and has legs that sit on the floor. This makes the balance a lot easier. Hope that answers your question...
@@CymberLilyQuinn thank you for your respond yeap the harp I target to buy have 30+ strings. Thank you for the information
I want your first harp where to get it ?
This is a Harpsicle Harp from Rees Harps in Indiana.
Where can I buy this harp online?
Julie Kozzy , Harpsicle Harps. harpsicleharps.com
Thank you for this video. Can you tell me how you adapted the snare drum stand? It looks like you have part of the Harpsicle stand but haven't mounted the whole thing... Can you share how you made that? I'd really like to do the same.
Thank you for your question! I didn't do the adaptation myself. This is the older version of the Harpsicle stand. They have upgraded it, made it more durable and solid. They also now have a tall stand for playing standing up. I haven't tried that yet, but want. to.
Cymber Lily Quinn thank you for your response. In the end I decided to cave and shell out the $150 rather than build my own. But thanks so much
@@DefaultName-gq3nv I did the same. I now have one of the old style, which they don't make any more and one of the new style. There are plusses and minuses to both, but on the whole, both stands are great. I like to play standing up, so to solve that problem, I often bring a small, lightweight table and cover it with black/colored fabric. Then I put the small stand on the table, and voila! I can play standing up without having to buy another stand...less gear to haul too. Hope you enjoy playing, using the new stand. Let me know how it goes?
That second one looks like the fullsicle, not the harpsicle. I bought a harpsicle and it didn't have levers and only played in the key of C. The fullsicle has all the levers but costs significantly more. I also have a Salvi Egan (not with the electric acoustic feature; wish it did) and I love it.
Yes, you are correct. Harpsicle the generic name for all of the harps, and when you are talking about a fully-levered harp, you are talking about the Fullsicle. Harpsicles come with a variety of lever configurations, including the one you bought, with no levers. And it's true that levers add a lot to the price (and weight) of any harp. Cool that you have an Egan and are loving it!
their website says if you buy the sharpsickle, you can upgrade and add levers but not with the harpsicle. i might go this route.