{"id":718,"date":"2012-02-12T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2012-02-17T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:07:20","slug":"harp-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Historical Harp Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I had a &#8220;real&#8221; harp and an authentic harp teacher (who was very good).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-105250.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-105250.jpg\" alt=\"20120212-105250.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her hand position totally agreed with Licia&#8217;s, thumbs up.<\/p>\n<p>While working the basics, my mbira partner brought over yet another harp that he had built himself from a kit. It is a troubadour harp used in the middle ages. He introduced me to the Cantigas de Santa Maria, songs in praise of the Virgin Mary from a fascinating period of European history, I will digress at a different time<\/p>\n<p>He was house sitting and I got to visit a 15th century harp. This historical episode led me to join the historical harp society and to long for a harp with bray pins (another story, another photo later on).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-105648.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-105648.jpg\" alt=\"20120212-105648.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above is the troubadour harp. Below, the 15th century Spanish harp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-105746.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120212-105746.jpg\" alt=\"20120212-105746.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was an entry point to historical harp interest which has come forward with me to be explored in this blog at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>What was interesting to me and later cost me a teacher was a chapter on playing historical harp from the book on Performance of Medieval music which related the playing of the harp to mbira as sorted out in the book, <em>Soul<\/em> <em>of<\/em> <em>the<\/em> <em>Mbira<\/em>. The harp was a connection to the spiritual realm as is the mbira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I had a &#8220;real&#8221; harp and an authentic harp teacher (who was very good). Her hand position totally agreed with Licia&#8217;s, thumbs up. While working the basics, my mbira partner brought over yet another harp that he had built himself from a kit. It is a troubadour harp used in the middle ages. He [&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\/718"}],"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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}