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Reverie Harp Music LINER NOTES

Every few months I would say to myself - "I should record an album of Reverie Harp Music."  This has been going on for years.  Well I finally decided to make it happen.  I challenged myself to record 12 tracks that feature the Reverie Harp.  I wanted to dig deep into this instrument and find out how much it had to offer.

I explored the different tunings and even developed a new tuning (see Mallets).  I rarely knew what I was going to do when I sat down to start a new track;  I would just tune the instrument and start to play.  I was constantly surprised by how an idea would eventually surface and turn itself into a new song.  

1) SPACE

Tuning:  Reverie Tuning in C

This was the first track recorded for this album.  I created a bed of atmospheric synthesizer sounds and then improvised on the Reverie Harp using the standard pentatonic Reverie Tuning in the Key of C

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