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Leah Aronow-Brown
Dept. of Communication, U. of Alaska Fairbanks
May God stand between you and harm in all the empty
places where you must walk.
- Babylon 5
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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, mmc wrote:
> Laura, my sentiments exactly. When I started this plastic-harp thread
> it was not my intention to denigrate the traditional harp; I was looking
> for the possibility of having a light-weight easily-portable practically
> indestructible harp that you could play in places which would be
> destructive to wooden harps.
>
> As for the aesthetics and the so-called impersonality of plastic harps:
> What percentage of your telephone is plastic? Your TV? Your computer?
> Or even your car? Whatever the amount, they do the job they were made
> for. A plastic harp should have the same capabilities.
>
> As to biodegradability, I am sure that the proportionally greater
> mountains of undegradable plastics, metals and glass would completely
> overwhelm any cast-off plastic harps simply because the proportion of
> harpers to the general population is so insignificant.
>
> I am not advocating a general change to plastic from wood. I have a
> Blevins Encore, am expecting a Heartland Lyra any day now, am
> considering buying a Paraguayan harp and eventually maybe an electric
> harp. And I don't play a note. Yet. When I really get started playing,
> you won't hear much of me on this list, because I know that I will be
> too engrossed with the harp to do much else. I simply want a harp I can
> haul around to places like the park, to picnics or anyplace else I want
> to go without having to worry about what the environment might be doing
> to my harp.
>
> By the way, have you seen the glass flutes?
>
> Marijo
> mmc@centuryinter.net
>