Lisa Warren was peacefully playing “Amazing Grace” on her harp, when suddenly the c string broke and–as she says–“scared the daylights out of me.” Harp playing, it’s not for the faint of heart…
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Well this is super cool😁🥰. This is my video lol.
I play at the Reagan Library on weekends for the Happy Hour On the Hill… the other evening… a G3 string broke on my 36-string Celtic hand-made harp… while not as dramatic as the story above… I had a spare… changed it… and retuned it after every piece… we harpists make it work, don’t we?
Tom Baker