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I Didn't Really Know A Lot Of The History When I Was Younger. I Didn't Realize That The Harp Is Coded In Such A Specific Way In Musical Circles. It's Kind Of This Society Instrument Because Of Its History As A Young Woman's Parlor Instrument.

I Want To Make Music That Somehow Connects To The Things That I Love In America Music.

I Wasn't Interested In Writing Music That Wasn't Beautiful For Me To Listen To.

Families Of Privilege And Money Would Have Harps In Their Parlors, And Their Cultured Daughters Would Learn To Play. It's Got Such A Strange History. But That Wasn't The Context That I Learned It In, So The Inherent Friction Between That History And The More Humanist Folk-y History Wasn't In My Conscience At All.

I've Been Unaware Of How People React To The Instrument. People Have Ideas Of What A Harp Is Supposed To Sound Like, And A Lot Of Them Are Negative Ideas.