Question:
Watching a Harp player on TV, I have hard enough time with 6 strings, how do they do it with all those strings
Answer:
As long as the harp is in tune - hitting any string sounds nice. I used to play harp until they were stolen and I couldn't afford to replace them. Strictly hobbist level- mostly folk. A harp is like a vertical piano. One hand plays above mdddle C the other plays the low notes - basically. If you can play piano, you can play harp though it's physically harder on the hands. On yeah and you use you feet to change the sharps and flats so maybe it's more like playing harps and drums or something. I mean yo use all four of your appendages Unless you just play folk harp in which case you flip sharping levers or if you play peruvian harp you just set the key for the song with a tuning key. In Peruvian harp the left hand is more percussive and the strings are closer together. Then there is electric jazz harps about which I know nothing except that Deborah Henson Conant http://hipharp.com/ is one hell of a player. So there's harp and then there's harp.
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