Fwd: Re: Re: [Harp-L] Re: full octave on 2 holes - worth it?

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Murray" <dlmurray@xxxx> 
wrote:
Is it possible to play music with the two hole octave that is being 
described or is it just a "look what I can do" exercise? Is there a 
practical reason for doing it, like it making some song possible or 
better 
than would otherwise be possible?

===============Winslow says:

Just a few years ago people were saying the same thing about 
overbends. Some folks are still saying it.

Any new technique will pass through the stages of what-if, lame 
attempts, technical consolidation, and musical usage. The musical 
usage can start an any stage. 

Bystanders will hear the stages where the thing is still technically 
lame and/or has not yet been musically integrated and will make 
disparaging comments about the pointlessness of the attempt and deem 
the techique fundamentally unmusical, impractical, etc. 

Meanwhile the dedicated players will go about the business of turning 
it into a musical reality.

I've had my share of listening back to some of my own dying-cat 
noises resulting from attempts to come up with a musical use of 
extended bends while not having full command. My current inclination 
is to play the diatonic diatonically, so I'm not really working in 
that direction. But I encourage anyone who wants to push the envelope 
and find both the technical command and the musical uses of extended 
techniques.

Winslow