Harp Orchestra Week 5
Apologies for missing last week's update, we were so busy finishing off our double batch of 8 harps before our workawayers left that we didn't get around to posting. Here is a video of us practicing The First Noel-our first…
Harp Orchestra Week 3
Well done to all our new arrivals this week, and to our existing members for your patience, hopefully it was not too overwhelming. We learned a valuable lesson this week, and that is we are now going to encourage people…
The Cheeky Breech
At my last midwifes appointment she measured me at almost one month behind in fundal height. This raised a little concern over baby’s development so before I knew it I was sat in the ultrasound waiting room of Gloucester general…
Harp Orchestra Week 2
Once again the group impressed me with their progress. Normally as a music teacher when you ask students to practice you know they probably will not find the time, but I could tell how well the group had practiced over…
Music in Labour
Yesterday I was sat in my NCT group for a two hour session on pain relief and intervention during labour. I have to admit that all the medical interventions and pain reduction methods they were talking about made me literally…
Our Baby’s Birth Song
Here is Morwenna playing our baby's "birth song" at 31 weeks gestation. At this point baby wriggles and moves towards the sound. She is playing this song regularly in the hope that baby will remember the song and find it…
Harp Orchestra…The Start of Something Beautiful
This Wednesday we were excited to finally have our first harp orchestra session! Although the Summer holidays has made it hard for many of our members to attend in August we still had 5 of us there at our first…
What you’ll learn at the end of your first year
For those of you looking at our course and wondering what it is you could learn through these videos, here is a snippet of what you learn towards the end of the first year. We give our subscribers these songs…
Lessons on how to play
Harp Lessons Making the harp accessible and affordable for everyone Many people see the harp as a beautiful, heavenly instrument, out of reach of us mere mortals. The same price as a family car and surely complicated to play right?…
Community Harp Orchestra
Anyone can join our harp orchestra-complete beginners welcome. We perform all sorts of gigs and concerts