as folk around here would say 'what a load of cobblers'. pretty girl though, she could probably make a chair look sexy...and the point of the piece was?
I'm sorry johnd, I'm afraid I don't have any qualifications to comment really meaningfully on this offering. I obviously don't know what I'm talking about...
From the comments so far, I have a feeling that this is probably another frivolous item so I don't think I'll bother with the clip! However, it saves me putting up a separate post on the more serious matter of the history of the Irish harp which I intended to do by drawing attention to Martin Donohoe's event in Cavan on Sunday, 22 November - see http://www.thesession.org/events/display/1777. Ann Heymann, the main participant, would appear to be quite an expert on the original wire-strung harp as played in the O'Carolan era and I think that her performance would be educational as well as entertaining. Definitely worth going to, in my opinion anyway, for anyone in striking distance on the day
Hello Earl, as much fun as I am having at the Beach Hut (& they are fun here) it is time for me to go home.
If you still have not sussed out the sound for Michelle's YouTube I did manage to convert to an mp3. Available here for a short time; http://media-convert.com/convert/?xid=7-qqlwpbbv
Good night
DAMN! I told you to keep the asylum doors locked. The only trouble is the patients can still get hold of cameras and U-Tube. I managed to sustain only minimal damage from this bit of wang, a few seconds, but my eyes and ears are still feeling the agony. I now need a long walk and romp in the mud and pouring rain in an attempt to clear this little fragment out... Out vile spot!
To my mind this is one example of people using the allusion of playing a harp to make some sort of point about truth, beauty, etc., but actually exploiting the emotions raised by us watching a beautiful women cavorting around a harp.
Truly, they would have been better off just getting a beautiful harpist to play the damn thing.
Reminds me of a shop in the next shopping centre over, called "Kites". Does it sell kites ? No, just fashionable ladies' clothing. A pity, I'd like a new kite.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
I bet you all wish you could play like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuWVfai0tJ8&feature=related
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by Joe CSS
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Is that a harp or a theremin she's playing? And how do we get her to stop?
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Haha.... I'm sure half the guys seeing that clip are wishing they *were* that harp.
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
I like it better than his last one (ballerina and a djembe)
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by airport
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
She can pluck my bottom D any time she chooses.
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by johndsamuels
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
God I'd love to run barefoot through her hair, or in my case hobble barefoot through it..
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by Free Reed
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
as folk around here would say 'what a load of cobblers'. pretty girl though, she could probably make a chair look sexy...and the point of the piece was?
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by john knoss
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
The biggest pile of pish I've seen in a long long while
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by llig leahcim
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Philistines! I keenly await the next installments. Ballerina and UilleannPpipes should be particularly culturally and spiritually uplifting.
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by johndsamuels
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
I'm sorry johnd, I'm afraid I don't have any qualifications to comment really meaningfully on this offering.
I obviously don't know what I'm talking about...
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by john knoss
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
From the comments so far, I have a feeling that this is probably another frivolous item so I don't think I'll bother with the clip! However, it saves me putting up a separate post on the more serious matter of the history of the Irish harp which I intended to do by drawing attention to Martin Donohoe's event in Cavan on Sunday, 22 November - see http://www.thesession.org/events/display/1777. Ann Heymann, the main participant, would appear to be quite an expert on the original wire-strung harp as played in the O'Carolan era and I think that her performance would be educational as well as entertaining. Definitely worth going to, in my opinion anyway, for anyone in striking distance on the day
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by Bannerman
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
this ought to cut the treacle a bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKdi3Dm-I8&feature=related
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Yeah, from the Michael Mulcahy College of Irish Traditional Music. Student enrollment: 2.
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Lovely playing Michelle but then what else would we expect from a member of the Mulcahy family.
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by Bannerman
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
I guess I'm guilty of reminding everyone what real irish harp sounds like. I suppose I've sidetracked things a bit.
As for the woman in the video - she may well have a uni degree in dance or theater. She's obviously no musician.
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
An' I'm not going to Cavan unless that Ann Heyman promises to dance an' all Bannerman.
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by john knoss
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
No sound on the Mulcahy video
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Earl Cameron
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
No arse in our trousers but we all enjoyed this harpist, and it only cost us four pence.
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Free Reed
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
works fine here.
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
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Forgot the Link....clown.
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtc9a4TgRus
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Free Reed
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Hearing her here, Earl. Check your settings.
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Ben Steen
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
It's so aggrivating cause everything else works and now I really want to listen.
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Earl Cameron
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Don't know if I can help, but is the sound good on other YouTube videos? They are all flash video (.flv).
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Ben Steen
~
I'm doing a download with Orbit Downloader. It's not flash, it's .mov
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Ben Steen
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Hello Earl, as much fun as I am having at the Beach Hut (& they are fun here) it is time for me to go home.
If you still have not sussed out the sound for Michelle's YouTube I did manage to convert to an mp3. Available here for a short time;
http://media-convert.com/convert/?xid=7-qqlwpbbv
Good night
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Ben Steen
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
DAMN! I told you to keep the asylum doors locked. The only trouble is the patients can still get hold of cameras and U-Tube. I managed to sustain only minimal damage from this bit of wang, a few seconds, but my eyes and ears are still feeling the agony. I now need a long walk and romp in the mud and pouring rain in an attempt to clear this little fragment out... Out vile spot!
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by ceolachan
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Sorry Joe, I find it freakish and weird.
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by shanty
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Well, she's not playing the harp properly. I only noticed after a while...
# Posted on November 21st 2009 by Mark Harmer
;)
who's to say . . . she's not bad though. cheers ceolachan.
# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by Ben Steen
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
Mark! of all the people!
I noticed straight away, so you weren't looking at her hands then!
# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by piobagusfidil
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
To my mind this is one example of people using the allusion of playing a harp to make some sort of point about truth, beauty, etc., but actually exploiting the emotions raised by us watching a beautiful women cavorting around a harp.
Truly, they would have been better off just getting a beautiful harpist to play the damn thing.
Reminds me of a shop in the next shopping centre over, called "Kites". Does it sell kites ? No, just fashionable ladies' clothing. A pity, I'd like a new kite.
# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
"they would have been better off just getting a beautiful harpist to play the damn thing"
Well then it becomes a musical recital rather than ballet. You might as well grumble that Swan Lake doesn't have real swans.
# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by johndsamuels
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp
What's that Tony McMahon clip where the gal behind him does a sort of strip tease?
# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by Atahualpa Quigley