Summerhays Notes

A professional instrument will often only have one fine tuner on the E string.Over time the fine tuner will get screwed all the way in and become useless in tuning.Before you start the tuning proces …

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Christian Rapp of Summerhays Music works with all sorts of bow-string instruments. Many students bring in instruments with broken bridges and say “I opened my case and the bridge was broken. I didn’t …

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The first step in stringing a violin is to take your strings from their packaging and identify them. Most strings are rolled in an envelope. Different brands of strings have different colored silking …

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Improvisation Tips From Elan Trotman. A summary of this section of his Summerhays Music November Clinic.To play a song and improvise over it you need to know the root of a song, or what key it is in. …

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Make two loops at the end of your harp string.First loop will tuck into the second loop.1st-4th octave strings will need an end piece as an anchor.Anchors can be made from old or broken 5th octave s …

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One of the first lessons harpists learn is how to correctly move their harp. Often times this lesson is learned the hard way.. Purely by experience! (*Even the show Portlandia made fun of this situati …

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