You might be waiting a while for that introduction, Praise, The best tune name (although I can't actually play it) to describe what you would hear is the Halting March. It'd be pretty slow and very halting.

Hmm, just wait a bit while I get my fingers on the strings for the next phrase, oh, there we go, here's the next bit, now wait a bit ....etc, etc.

The only time I played solo in public there happened to be another harp player in the audience. I didn't know him, he introduced himself to me later. During my playing he was singing the tune very loudly and it really showed up the fact that I didn't have the timing right. I had not agreed to play solo in the first place, I had thought that one of my friends would be playing as well, but she chickened out and left me all alone being "shown up" by an ignorant fellow harper - well, I thought he was pretty ignorant at the time.

Actually I am getting better at playing solo, but I haven't done it in public again, yet.

'Spaw, thanks. I am feeling a lot better in the last couple of weeks. Next week I will start on a different project at work, in a new location where I have a lot of friendly co-workers rather than the veiled animosity I have had to put up with in my current office. Things are definitely looking up.

Helen