Re: [Harp-L] copyrighting

["Robert Laughlin" <harmonicaman1968@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That noise you make when you put one hand on the opposite armpit and pump 
your arm up and down,,

Or how about that move a charismatic harmonica player might make, where they 
toss the other arm up in the air suddenly, to show something about hitting a 
beat, or stopping for something special, like a train going by, or whatever 
it is they're saying to the universe.

I think I'll copyright that motion/movement. I'll make a zillion bucks fast, 
from all of the royalties.

But seriously, I wonder if Chubby Checker could have copyrighted the twist, 
or if M.C. Hammer could have copyrighted the baggy pants dance.

I have a method myself, of writing often annoying and overly-lengthy or 
off-topic posts. I could copyright THAT.

rl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Rubin" <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Brian Irving" <brian.irving@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" 
<harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] The Ashby Method for Overbending


> I play both right side up and upside down.  I have no trouble overblowing
> either way.  I cannot make Neil's method work for me, however.  I also am
> confused as to whether a teaching method can be copyrighted.  I do have a
> copyright on my book, but I think that's just so no one can reprint the
> book and sell it under their own authoriship.  The concepts are
> everybody's, it's is my language I am copyrighting. Or can you copyright a
> technique?
> Michael Rubin
> michaelrubinharmonica.com
>
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Brian Irving <brian.irving@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>
> > Playing "upside down" should not make any difference, other than 
> > reversing
> > the direction of the air flow (to the appropriate side of the hole) to
> > achieve overblows, if that technique is, indeed as effective as claimed.
> > I've played "upside down" from day 1 and I manage to bash out a tune or
> > two, incorporating all traditional blow and draw bends and octave splits 
> > as
> > necessary, without getting thrown out of any bars (or bands!).
> > B
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]
> > Sent: 02 November 2014 19:36
> > To: harp-l
> > Subject: Re: [Harp-L] The Ashby Method for Overbending
> >
> > (1) Below is among the comments I received that was not "cc:" to Harp-L:
> >
> > "That's amazing.  I've been playing for 55 years and the one technique
> > that has baffled me, despite various suggestions from my customizers is 
> > the
> > overblow.
> > I tried this and had instant gratification.  Many thanks.
> > "
> >
> > (2) Pertaining "playing the harp numbers down" then I consider that to be
> > a non-standard embouchure and would not bother to comment. Somebody on
> > YouTube performs with the harp backward in his mouth and selects the 
> > notes
> > via covering holes with his fingers; that is another non-standard
> > embouchure and he ought even not consider overbends.
> >
> > /Neil


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