Please, call me Cindy! I’m an author, speaker, musician, and a bit of a harp rebel. Not necessarily in that order! I’ve been playing harp most of my adult life, and specializing in double-strung harp for nearly 30 years. I literally wrote the book for beginners who want to learn to play the double-strung harp, and my book of lead sheets for harp is a must-have for harpists of all levels. I’ve even won the US National Scottish Harp Championship and teach harp lessons online from my Indiana-based studio.
I love to compose, perform, teach, and publish old and new music for harp (especially the double-strung harp!).
Why do I play the double-strung harp?
Not only is it a modern take on a classic instrument, double-strung harp is also the most flexible and accessible of all harps. It’s portable, it’s affordable, and it allows you to express yourself in so many ways. It takes courage to express yourself, and with double-strung harp, you can create and innovate in ways that you can’t on any other harp. Because it’s still fairly new, not a lot of people know how versatile the double-strung harp can be. I’m on a mission to tell the world about just how awesome this instrument is!
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Double-strung harp expert Cindy Shelhart is a performing artist, composer, and creator of The Technique Triangle™️, the simple system for double harp players that makes their music “sound like a double.” She also teaches lead sheet performance and arranging for all harps. Learn more at cindyshelhart.com.
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Double-strung harp expert Cindy Shelhart is a performing artist, composer, and creator of The Technique Triangle™️, the simple system for double harp players that makes their music “sound like a double.” She also teaches lead sheet performance and arranging for all harps. Cindy is the author of the method book Make Mine a Double and The Double Dozen Series of repertoire collections, as well as the top-selling fake book Tunes to Go: 400 Tunes in Lead Sheet Format for the Harp. She has performed and presented for many national harp organizations and music festivals, and her solo albums Limberlost Angel and That Night in Bethlehem have been featured on public radio and podcasts. The first DSH player to win the US National Scottish Harp Championship™, Cindy loves random trivia, flies her Hogwarts flag with pride, and gets stuff done with a big mug of English (or French) Breakfast. (Pass the milk, please.) Learn more at cindyshelhart.com.
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Double-strung harp expert Cindy Shelhart is a performing artist, composer, and creator of The Technique Triangle™️, the simple system for double harp players that makes their music “sound like a double.” She also teaches lead sheet performance and arranging for all harps.
Cindy created The Technique Triangle for the growing number of double-strung harp (DSH) players who bring this cool harp home, but then hit the “now what?” wall. They want unique DSH tips and effects, but don’t know how to add them to the music they already play, or how to create their own arrangements. Cindy’s streamlined system takes players from “stuck” to “sounds like a double” with double-strung excellence at every level.
She is the author of the method book Make Mine a Double and The Double Dozen Series of repertoire collections, as well as the top-selling fake book Tunes to Go: 400 Tunes in Lead Sheet Format for the Harp. Cindy has performed and presented for national harp organizations and music festivals including the American Harp Society, the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen, the Somerset Folk Harp Festival (NJ), and The Harp Gathering (OH). Her solo albums Limberlost Angel and That Night in Bethlehem have been featured on public radio and podcasts.
The first DSH player to win the US National Scottish Harp Championship ™, Cindy loves random trivia, flies her Hogwarts flag with pride, and gets stuff done with a big mug of English (or French) Breakfast. (Pass the milk, please.) Learn more at cindyshelhart.com.
