@jjraak thanks! Now find one that has ONLY voice please? We're working with an essentially foreign language here, so we want to start with "mi casa es su casa", not "fourscore and seven years ago..."
I may get on my computer at some point....
@SaskiaKC ohhh the phoooonnnne!!! That was the last time somebody on the phone sounded like they were in the room with you. Analog. It's the best.
@gennepher Voices of Angels is exactly what I'd have chosen, way to go!!! I can't begin to imagine what it must feel like for you. And I was recommended by a harp store manager friend to get a Harpsicle. I have my own plan of becoming a Certified Therapeutic Music Provider, and that's why I'm going to get one. This friend was very blunt about some other, less expensive brand (which I forget the name of). The polite thing she said was, don't get one.
Several reasons for a lap harp. 1. So long as you tune it using a digital tuner (works visually) , the notes you play will always be right. Unlike almost any other handheld instrument. 2. Easy to make simple tunes quickly. 3. Easily play two notes at once when you feel ready. 4. Yes, the body contact is a big feature. I read of a woman putting her harp against a dying deaf patient's shoulder, and the patient showed clear signs of calming down. Rest your chin on it. Get your skull up against it somehow maybe. My flute sound comes to me through my jaw, and I can feel the instrument vibrate in my fingers. But it's hard to get a first right note on. 5. Price point. Of course you can buy a cheap student string or wind instrument, but then you will get terrible versions of the right note. 6. Novelty!
Okay. Thanks.
Am copying and pasting all of these pieces of information the moment I see them (and screenshots to put in a pdf in iBooks so I can always look back on this).
I wanted to keep trying Voices of Angels. Might see if I can download it to my iPhone instead of keep going on You Tube with those irritating adverts. It was weird, Voices of Angels wanted to stay in my head. I won’t forget it. The feeling is still there this morning. I have just woken up to a fasting blood glucose of 7.5 (I have never had it that low in a morning ever before). Voices of Angels has a quality, but I don’t have the words to explain. I’ve not heard anything as soothing/calming/peaceful/etc as that before.
I am assuming your words to
@jjraak above about words only (talking with me in mind?) is because when I tried others on You Tube they had an instrument/s playing, the instrument/s spoilt it and took away from, what I will call at the moment until I find better words, the hypnotic (?) quality of the female voices?
I was wondering how I would be able to tune a harp instrument with not hearing like a hearing person does. I’ve googled and realise how the tuner should work.
About the bit on the harp resting on the dying deaf patient’s shoulder...a personal story about me. I will try and make it brief as possible - I was in Glastonbury, in the 1990’s, with my partner J (who died 10 years ago), and there was this guy who did therapies. I’ve forgotten the name of the therapy. But his name was Paul.
Paul suspended people upside down by balancing you on his feet. Then he did humming things and small cymbals and other sound stuff, none of which I could hear. No able bodied person took him up on his offer of suspending them upside down. They were too scared. By mid afternoon I was talking with him. He agreed to do me a profoundly deaf, very overweight woman with mobility problems and balance problems. He said I would still be able to receive the sound therapy he was doing even though I couldn’t hear it.
He had to explain before we started how he would proceed, because obviously me being suspended upside down, I wouldn’t be able to lipread him. And we had a safe sign I could use in case I wanted him to put me back on the ground. Also he had two of his friends either side ready to catch me if I fell.
But I had been taking with him for awhile before and I knew I could place my trust in him.
It all went well, he suspended me. And kept me suspended upside down on his feet while he did his musical stuff and small cymbal things. I couldn’t hear anything. However, It was very calming and peaceful. My trust in him was total. He touched me on the arm which was our prearranged sign for putting me down. And I remembered his instructions perfectly, the men either side were not needed at any point. Basically I was like a Buddha upside down, he was lying on the ground legs up, with my shoulders balancing on his feet.
When I got upright I got a big surprise, a big crowd had gathered, 200 or 300 people, and they clapped and applauded the whole thing that had just happened.
But what I want to impart to you, because you said, “ I have my own plan of becoming a Certified Therapeutic Music Provider..” , my partner J said that my voice had changed to more pleasant and rounded after this musical therapy which I could not hear. I must have been receiving it through his body, his feet into my head and shoulders which were on his feet. J said my voice had intonation which I did not have before. (I was a late speaker as a child because of not being able to hear at all, and had to be painstakingly taught word by word. I was about 7years old when this started, and I was the child from hell because I had no way of giving or receiving communication).
For weeks and weeks afterwards, my partner J said that my voice kept what it got from that experience of being suspended receiving that music therapy. J was forever looking at me while I was speaking because he couldn’t believe the improvement in my voice. Obviously, I was totally unaware of any improvement in my voice.
So, your intended plan to be a Therapeutic Music Provider, has the potential for something amazing.
Right I had better go and make a coffee and come back and read the posts...
I hope there are no typos on here. I am writing on my phone and the type is small to read back.... will change to bigger screen of iPad and maybe edit when I come back.
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I noticed this post got a bit 'corrupted' on small phone screen on the app after I posted, but is fine on the web...