DO ONLY ANGELS PLAY HARPS?





Carolyn Mills from NZSO came to school today. She brought her harp and played for us. A harp is a musical instrument that has lots of strings. You can play it by plucking, running your fingers up and down the strings, using the pedals, running a key across the strings or tapping the side of the instrument.

Carolyn played a tango from Argentina, a jig from Ireland and a flamenco from Spain. Then Carolyn helped the children compose pieces of music which she played for them.

Here's what the Room 7 children thought about the show.
"It was awesome that she could make noise just by pressing the pedals".
"It was interesting that she could play it with the harp key".
"She could play it off by heart".
"She could make lots of different noises with just one string"."We could see by the look of her fingers that she did lots of practice".
"It was really exciting that was the first time I had seen anybody play a harp"
"Her music was soothing".
"I liked hearing Carolyn play the music I had made".