lonely harp?

Shawn Bird (sbird@dpts.schdist57.bc.ca)
Sat, 4 Jan 1997 00:02:15 +0200

I was detained tonight by my harp. I have tried to play a few times this
week, but I couldn't "hear" it. It just didn't sound right at all. I
figured it was because my head has been congested and decided not to play a
lot. And because every time I tried I felt like that- played a bit of a song
or two and then got frustrated because it sounded tinny and weird; it went
out of tune from lack of attention. Tonight it called to me, and I tuned it
up. I played and it still sounded dull and tinny. I moved it to a new
place; still weird. I feared I'd "lost the musical soul" of the instrument,
or something. Then I played my new Telltale Harps c.d. for my harp - it was
right beside the speakers. I played a couple songs, then turned off the
stereo. I wasn't consciously playing this for the harp, by the way, in fact
I was checking a tape I'd made and played the c.d. by chance. Then I tried
the harp again. You would swear it was a different instrument! Suddenly it
could sing again. It was the strangest thing!!

Now I want to know- does this happen to anybody else? Could it be something
in the air? Humidity has dropped 20% in my house in the last week, could
that do it? Why would it sound so dead until it heard Telltale Harps, and
then suddenly ring again? I'm not kidding, it was like there was no
sustain, and then there was...

Ideas?

Shawn
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