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MumaHarps.com - Roger Muma Musical Instruments
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I have been involved with music to some degree or other since the age of four. I started out learning to play on a parlour pump organ that my mother had brought from her childhood home. A piano soon replaced the organ in my parents Toronto household which I studied until I reached teen years when I took up the guitar. Along the way I flirted with violin and trombone.
After high school and my first full time job in the library at Carlton University in Ottawa I became involved in teaching music on an extra curricular basis with the Ottawa Separate School Board. I conducted classes for grade school children in Recorder and Classical Guitar. It was about this time that I seriously took up the study of Classical Guitar.
Having studied art in high school I was looking for some way to give vent to my artistic impulses. The first effort was to research the history and design of recorders. After moving to Vancouver, however, I became involved in making musical instruments that were in use in the Vancouver Waldorf School. In the third grade the children are exposed to myths and legends, one of which is the Kalevala. In this story Vainamoinen made the first Kantele from the jaws of a large pike. It had magical powers similar to Orpheus's lyre. Modern versions of this instrument are used in the early grades of many of the Waldorf Schools around the world and are also used in music therapy.
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