What a wonderful day!
Not only did I get to hang out all day with my kitty Ophelia, who had been missing for six days, but also–finally–at the end of the delivery day, the UPS guy brought me a big heavy box. In it was my new harp!
It is purple. It has 26 strings, including some wound strings on the bass that give it a more responsive and deeper sound. It has sharping levers on the B’s, F’s and C’s.
It sounds wonderful!
And best of all, it doesn’t hurt to play it! Woo hoo! 🙂
Let Us Live Like We Mean It! 
Oh how lovely! A purple harp! Apart from my hubby, we all like purple, even my 20 year old son, so I feel you. We should find a purple guitar. 🙂
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Thanks, Anne. Yes, purple is a great color. In fact, the new harp matches my music stand! 🙂
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😊💖
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Purple is regal! Beautiful instrument. Hope you have a great time with it!
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Thank you, Mel & Suan. Today was our national Thanksgiving Day, so I spent most of the day at some friends’ house having a huge feast and a great time. But once I got home, I started fooling around with the new harp. There’s a lot of tuning involved for the first couple of weeks, until the strings, all 26 of them, stretch out fully. But I got to play, or at least try to play, a couple of songs as well. I haven’t played in several years and have a couple of fingers that don’t work now, so it’s a bit of a challenge. But many of the good things in life are challenges, are they? 🙂
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True. But like riding a bicyle, we are sure it will all come back to you soon!
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It’s beautiful and there’s not much risk of you losing or forgetting it, unless the world is full of purple harps.
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Hahaha! You have such a delightful sense of humor, April. I’ve seen it at work in your novels, which I’m enjoying greatly! 🙂
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Thank you. I think we should laugh as often as possible.
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I love the colour purple. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a purple harp, but why not? 🙂
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Why not indeed? Thank you, Val! 🙂
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I wished I could hear it. You must take a video to upload. : )
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Thanks, Robyn. 🙂 It will be awhile before I can play well enough again to want to reveal my harp’s sound to folks. I stopped playing a few years back due to arthritis. This new harp is very lightly strung, which makes it easier to play and less painful. 🙂 Still, it will take time and practice before I get my “chops” back! 😉
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Good on you for persisting.
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Wow. what a day of celebration…Ophelia must be so pleased to be home….and a purple harp…how wonderful is that:) Enjoy….janet.
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Thank you, Janet! 🙂 A day to celebrate, for sure. It really made me a very thankful person on our national Thanksgiving Day this Thursday! 🙂
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