Sharon

Check out Sylvia Woods' harp site for books & videos etc on Celtic or wire harp playing for beginners.

http://www.harpcenter.com/

There are other books available but I can recommend her Teach Yourself the Folk Harp book & video.

And you do know about the harp mailing list, don't you? Send to harp-admin@zendo.com with the message "subscribe" and tell them if you want digest or single emails (approx 20 per day) then post messages to the list through harp@zendo.com.

We are in the throes of transmuting at present, possibly to a BBS site. I haven't had a chance to find out the latest news on that yet, but the list will continue one way or another, and there is an archives site to look up previous threads as well.

You can get to that through the Harp Page http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/harp/

Also, I'm wondering why the only person who forgets he/she plays an accordion is the accordion player him/herself. The quiet instruments *never* forget that there is an accordion in the room. ;->

(I actually like accordion music, especially the good dance tunes with an interesting rhythm)

Helen