{"id":733,"date":"2012-02-12T14:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T19:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2012-02-17T23:03:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:03:53","slug":"harp-chapter-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Mazie Harp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland brought me back to harp. I took some lessons around the Cantigas de Santa Maria. I wanted to learn as I learned mbira, in the oral tradition. The teacher plays and then you play by watching their hands. I was loving this way of learning, picking up songs by watching the teacher’s hands.<\/p>\n

I learned several songs quickly but missed something in just perfecting technique. Wanting something deeper in the resonating tones so once again put away the harp for a few months.<\/p>\n

Then some miracle happened as here again the harp was speaking to me when I got near it. I started looking at the International Harp Program and linked to a skype teacher who was someone I had met 13 years earlier. She single handedly got me going again through positive reinforcement. Improvisation from the Christina Tourin DVD’s and Christine on skype having each note feel like a snowflake or juicy apple, brought me into the realm I was longing to enter: the realm of Frankincense and Myrrh, the realm of heart.<\/p>\n

My mother broke her hip in Nov of 2011. Christine hooked me up with a healing harp, a lap harp that was purchased by a grandmother to play for her granddaughter and then donated to Christine for visiting anyone with a heart need. The harp traveled across from the border between Idaho and Washington to Woodland Washington. I drove to pick it up and started working with this harp called Amazing Mazie. I didn’t play the harp for my mom but played it for myself and cared for it as I needed to care for myself after several years of caregiving in Ashland.<\/p>\n

Amazing Mazie brought me a reminder of vibrational medicine, the vibrating string across one’s heart is so comforting.<\/p>\n

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Amazing Mazie is the harp to the left. Getting ready for a skype lesson with Christine Magnussen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portland brought me back to harp. I took some lessons around the Cantigas de Santa Maria. I wanted to learn as I learned mbira, in the oral tradition. The teacher plays and then you play by watching their hands. I was loving this way of learning, picking up songs by watching the teacher’s hands. I […]<\/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\/733"}],"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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}