{"id":708,"date":"2012-02-12T13:43:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2012-02-17T23:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:08:17","slug":"harp-history-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Harp knocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before launching what is NOW happening in my harp world, I regress to 2009 when I took a trip to Portland to go to a workshop but my ailing dog at the last minute decided to go (his caretaker vanished). On the way to Portland, I heard from my mbira friend, Licia. She called and asked for Reiki. I mentioned harp. The rest is history. Oh, and no Jungian workshop for me. Enter harp.<\/p>\n<p>Licia cautioned me on forming the correct hand position (see photo).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-104712.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-104712.jpg\" alt=\"20120212-104712.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This seems simple but has proven to be always a work in progress. Licia had two small harps, two lever harps, and 2 concert harps. Plays beautifully. Here are the first two. I mention them and show a photo because my first harp was a cardboard harp. Nice sound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-104912.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-104912.jpg\" alt=\"20120212-104912.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought a cardboard harp from Arpeggio harps and in the next 2 months traded it up for a Dusty Strings as you have seen in my first post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before launching what is NOW happening in my harp world, I regress to 2009 when I took a trip to Portland to go to a workshop but my ailing dog at the last minute decided to go (his caretaker vanished). On the way to Portland, I heard from my mbira friend, Licia. She called and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}