Welcome to Harp Inside Out, a website for harpists everywhere! My name is Jacqueline Pollauf and I created this website to organize the many resources I have for the harp, including articles, videos, and my own music publications through Oakway Studios.

As the harp is not a very common instrument, it can be difficult to find information or local experts to turn to with questions. And so, by virtue of being a professional harpist, people everywhere ask me their questions.

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Parents of new students might ask me how to tune a harp. A high school orchestra teacher might ask about the difference between a lever and a pedal harp. An intermediate student might come up after a performance and ask if I have any exercises to help them play harmonics more precisely. A composer might ask me questions about writing well for the harp.

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Here you can find answers to all of those questions and more. Feel free to click around and explore all of these areas. Hopefully your questions - whether a panicked moment where you need to replace your first broken string or a momentary curiousity about who the harpist Henriette Renié was  - will be answered here! ​​