aron's Favorite Music

aron Von Lodge was the head of a small country known as Lilliland near Switzerland. The time was the early 1900s.

Everywhere you were able to go in Lilliland Castle you would hear the delicate strings of the Celtic harp. In fact, one of the reasons that a certain man from Ireland received his position at the castle stables was because he could play the Celtic harp.

A few years ago when the Baron visited Ireland, he was so impressed with the Irish Celtic harp music that he brought three of the instruments back to Lilliland.

The Baron preferred just the pure sounds of the harp without anyone singing along. He would have Celtic harp music played at most of the official receptions and festivities at Lilliland Castle.

The Baron often asked his fiancée, Lady Angela of Alpine Castle, how could he have possible developed this preference in musical sounds? They both wondered and discussed it, but could not figure it out, so they asked the chief advisor Professor Hamblin who knew the Baron’s parents, but had no idea where or when his love for the Celtic harp music began.

One day the Professor recalled an old tale about not playing music too loudly because it might cause an avalanche to come down the Alpine Mountains and push Lilliland Castle into Castle Lake.

There was not much truth, of course, to the old tale because the castle was situated far enough from the base of the mountains that an avalanche could not greatly affect it.

Professor Hamblin speculated that the young Baron may have asked his father what musical instruments were safe to listen to so as not to create a dangerous avalanche. The Baron’s father specifically said no to drums, symbols, horns or any other loud musical instruments. Perhaps he felt the soft, light, inspirational sounds of a harp were just the right type of music for Lilliland Castle.

The Baron may have been only five or six years old and wishing to obey his father’s wishes, developed his selection for music at that time, for the reasons that the young child felt were important.

But whatever the real reason was, the music of the Celtic harp added much to the beauty of Lilliland.