Quarantunes!
Many of us are confined to our homes. It’s a frustrating, confusing and anxious time for everyone. However, we’ve decided to provide you with some free harp lessons to brighten up your day! Click on each tune name to access…
A Whole New Way of Learning the Harp-The Rainbow Harp
We're very proud to introduce a new project we've been working on. The Rainbow Harp has been designed to make it possible for almost anyone to learn to play the harp. Have you ever looked at sheet music and recoiled…
Birthday Presents, Second Hand Tools and Trees – Carbon Neutral Challenge Months 5 and 6
May and June Apologies for having missed May’s blog. It’s hard fitting everything in when you run a small business! We’ve been hard at work on our new project-The Rainbow Harp. You’ll be able to find out all about that…
Extinction Rebellion and Delivery – Carbon Neutral Challenge Month 4
Extinction Rebellion This month we’ve been cheering on the Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters. While the coverage of it has been mixed, it feels like there is a large and increasing proportion of people who support the group and what they’re…
What’s in your Eco-Brick? – Carbon Neutral Challenge – Month 3
March This has been another busy month for us here at Hands on Harps. With our building works well and truly finished we have been focused on building harps to meet the orders that have come in over the past…
What?! You Can Play the Harp with LEGO?!
Wait...wait... give me a minute to explain! Now that I've been a harp teacher for 6 months and I've had lots of lessons that go really well and some that were "boring" or "too hard" or "too easy," I'm starting…
Carbon Neutral Challenge-Month 2
February Packaging This month we’ve been looking at how to reduce packaging. Applying the “three Rs” in order of importance, we can’t really reduce the amount of packaging we send our harps out in, but we can make that packaging…
Carbon Neutral Challenge-Month 1
January This month has seen the building work on our workshop nearing completion. Exciting times for Hands on Harps as we get nearer to being a proper business. With the space to really set things up the way we want…
Going Carbon Neutral in 2019
We've been doing some thinking at HoH HQ. Looking around at things that are going on in the world, it seems like climate change is getting real, and the news of this looks like it's in danger of being drowned…
A Little Insight Into Our Christmas Workshop
In September the Mayor of Hungerford asked me if I would like to play at the Mayor's Christmas Carol Service in December. I replied quickly with "yeah, sure I can do that" and then remembered that when performing on my…