[Rhodes22-list] Carnegie Hall

[Steven Alm]

I learned how to play the harmonica in Boy Scouts.  I played the trumpet in
the school band so I thought I ought to get my bugling merit badge--which I
did.  When I brought my bugle to the camp-outs, I'd be out there at 7 am
blowing Reveille and all the other boys would shout at me from their tents
to shut up.  Eventually they stole my horn and hid it from me.  It was then
that I thought I'd learn a quieter instrument and one that I could hide in
my own pocket.  I learned all those bugle calls on the harp and continued as
the troop's "bugler" but nobody complained after that.  "Taps" is especially
nice on the harmonica as the fire is dying out.

Slim

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
wrote:

> I was pretty sure it was diatonic, but not 100% sure. It sounded like
> one to me. When he played Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, I thought he did
> well, but with a little practice, I could have done the same. Then he
> played the William Tell Overture, and I couldn't have TOUCHED that
> performance. That was where he bent notes so well, and (again, not 100%
> sure, I'm no musician), I think he bent notes on some of the chords.
> THAT's a trick friends.
>
> I play a little harp. Not much anymore, and was never really good. I
> made up for lack of talent with trying to learn something about them.
> It's really a neat little instrument. BTW, I play a little of a LOT of
> instruments, but I'm not very good at any of them. Don't need to be,
> it's fun anyway. My favorite of those that I can actually get decent
> music from is the hammer dulcimer, another diatonic instrument. I guess
> I like diatonic instruments because you can make pretty sounds without
> being good :
>
>
> Steven Alm wrote:
> > Mike and Herb,
> >
> > Just gave it another listen.  No way that's a chromatic.  You can hear
> that
> > distictive tone of notes being "bent" which is not usually done on a
> > chromatic.  He bends the notes so precisely that it almost sounds
> > chromatic--almost.  Herb, you get extra points for using the term
> > "diatonic."
> >
> > Slim  (favorite harp player--Magic Dick of the J. Giles Band, esp.
> "Whammer
> > Jammer")
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I can't say for 100% sure, but I don't think that was a chromatic harp.
> >> Too many chords, usually they're harder to play on a chromatic than they
> >> are on a diatonic.
> >>
> >> Michael D. Weisner wrote:
> >>
> >>> What a treat!!  Just 10 little holes!  Well OK, it was probably a
> >>>
> >> chromatic
> >>
> >>> but still, the guy is fantastic!  I get a headache just thinking about
> >>>
> >> the
> >>
> >>> breathing ...
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>> s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
> >>> Nissequogue River, NY
> >>>
> >>> From: "Steven Alm" <stevenalm at gmail.com>Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008
> >>>
> >> 5:01
> >>
> >>> PM
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> This guy's my new hero:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.websbyrick.com/hamonica.html
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