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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 Tue, 28 Jan 1997, white wrote:
> "tuning is not a chore...it is a grace period of transition" Bette
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> I appreciate the thought! A summer or two ago, I was staying with a
> harpist friend who was doing a summer camp at her house for her young
> students. One of the nicest things was waking early in the morning to
> the sound of the harps being tuned ( nine of them!) ..
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> That sounds prosaic, but the youngster who was tuning was moving in
> fifths and the sounds began middle, then very low, then up and made a
> song of their own, with the birds, the soft wind in the pines outside my
> friend's house. There was beauty and a magic.
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> Someone else whose mother is also a harp teacher said when she was
> little she would listen to her mother teaching or playing in the studio
> and drift off to sleep. Joyce
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