Introducing Mozart's Single Action Pedal Harp

[@mitchelvalentino1569]

Happy Birthday, Wolfgang! 🎂 🎁 🎉

[@davidsillars3181]

What lovely instrument. Thank you for sharing that.

[@operator_melayu]

Happy 265th Birthday, Wolfie!

[@twosetviolinfan4047]

Happy birthday Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.....💙 We all love you so much.... And about this harp... It's so beautiful and sounds so amazing...💙❤️

[@ajestiandan6218]

Happy 265th birthday Wolfie!

[@hdibart]

Beautiful,thank you.

[@essalove]

Thank you💕I Love his music, no wonder he played harp too, a wonderful harp with amazing sound💕✨

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Very good information about period instruments making it easier to get things in the proper dynamic balance.

[@idraote]

One of the things I love about period instruments is exactly how non aggressive they are. Don't get me wrong, it is perfectly fine to listen to music in one of those humongous halls that are so common nowadays, especially in large metropoles. But there's nothing like making music in a moderate-sized hall, the size of a palatial dining room of old, where the distance between players and listeners is small to non existent.

[@__seeker__]

Wonderful instrument, history lesson and harpist!

[@wolfie8748]

Please do entire pieces!!!!

[@dianeaishamonday9125]

Woop woop, harp representation!! 😍😍😍

[@hiera1917]

I neeeeeeeed a recording of this concerto with period instruments

[@yurtnurtgarr]

Happy Birthday! Or as the germans say it, Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

[@jimbuxton2187]

This harp projects through the orchestra much better than the modern concert harp because of its brilliance.

[@codybenner179]

Aw man this video was too short, that harp has such a beautiful sound!

[@M33f3r]

Like a glimpse into a lost world of peace and beauty.

[@ThreadBomb]

I am inspired to listen to one of my HIP recordings of the harp/flute concerto! (Abbado)

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Well to make it work on the Modern Instruments I had to add a Pickup to the Harp & also restring it w/ all Steel Strings so I could make it 3 times as loud.

[@mikesoule1352]

You put STEEL strings on an instrument made for gut?!? Are you nuts?!? 😳

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@mikesoule1352 I have special steel strings that have the same tension as gut made by Dogal

[@barbaralevasseur2384]

that was lovely. what piece are you playing here? Please do the entire piece sometime, I love your harp.

[@oae]

Thank you! The extract is from Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp

[@mikesoule1352]

What a pretty harp! Who is the maker?

[@gabrielebondi7803]

This harp can mantain only mainted one Accordatore or it can be tonated in other tonality?

[@robloxmaniacdanceandshake7871]

Yea! ... Mozart Harp teachers!!!!.....

[@Qermaq]

Question - if this harp plays natural or sharp notes, how can you tune it to F major, as in the excerpt at the end? I imagine you'd have to tune all the Bs to Bb as if you used the A# then you have no 3rd of the tonic. However, the whole concerto is in C so that's not practical. Or, do you have to keep your right foot on the A pedal and just pump it like a gas pedal throughout the 2nd movement?

[@isaacpark8885]

I haven’t personally learned the piece, but I am a harpist. Usually single action harps and Celtic harps are tuned to flats in the Es Bs and As so your feet do not need to move as much. Nobody needs an E# when you already have a F natural right next to it. Same with B#. It just makes it so you have 2 strings with the same pitch which is only useful in glissandos. Some pieces do have a ridiculous amount of foot movement which is unavoidable though. Jeaux deau by ravel for example. I don’t imagine Mozarts work was too difficult on the feet if the instruments had the proper flats tuned to them. Hope this helps!

[@Qermaq]

@@isaacpark8885 A bit, thanks. I've played a ton or two of instruments but never got to try the harp. I've studied it from an arranging standpoint but I've never had the opportunity to actually write for a harpist. I bet you'll agree, it has some of the most unique characteristics of any instrument in the orchestra, and the last thing I'd want to do is write with ignorance of those. So every morsel of info certainly is appreciated. :D

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

It's a Pedal Harp alright.

[@ashcoates3168]

Feels weird to actually be the first person to comment

[@jhalent93]

:)

[@DCBfanboy]

She seems so anxious speaking XD poor lady :')

[@qwaqwa1960]

Plastic strings??

[@tomtombird2329]

No. Gut!