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From: SNaru~-online.de (Siegfried Naruhn)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 96 03:00 +0100
Subject: RE: RE: Re: re- Trivia

Hello friends,

I remember having said that I consider this list firstly an excellent
information platform for harp matters but appreciate also its entertaining
value by all kinds of well put slogans, sidesteps, and humouristic interludes.
I do my very best to compete with the <>Ironfisted travelling horn which is a
lot better than it sounds<>. Not at least our 'list-fuehrer' shows understanding
for occasional intermezzi.

But reading the list has also a considerable learning effect, specially for
non-natives which are not quite familiar with the practical meaning of some
terms in English or American, an additional handicap Doug Tate will surely
confirm.

I have to thank Barry, Mattias and Indiana for their identical explanations how
the procedure of upside down harping has to be performed. Most comfortable for
me is their synonymous description of this unusual harp position because I need
not deal now with different opinions.

However, my confusion about this artistic art to play the scales is now even
bigger than before.

When Mattias writes:>>Till now I thought I was the only harp player in
the world holding the harp upside down..<<, he has forgotten all left-handed
chromatic players which then play all upside down (low notes at the right).

But I'm highly astonished to learn that my given German interpretation of upside
down is taken in the meaning of 'back to front, the wrong way round' (in German
= seitenverkehrt). I can't imagine any an objection against my understanding
that 'upside down' is literally the same as 'the upper side is now down'.

When DT is informed that a strike in GB is not a strike in USA (3 strikes and
you are off), I won't surrender so easily with a possible explanation that in
the States the term 'upside down' has the meaning of changing the left with the
right side. I would say then, ahaa, the term 'back to front' has obviously the
meaning to play a harp in headstand.

flash of end, Well, end of flash = nwod edispu!

nhuraN deirfgeiS