Re: Those higher notes

[Steve Price <sprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Feb 1995, Mike Curtis wrote:

> 
> High notes can be challenging to make sound good, but once you master them,
> the audience LOVES it!  Keep working on it - you'll be glad you did!
> 
> 
This is true, and I've never understood it.  Everytime I see a harp 
player who takes really opportune moment to hit a high note with drama and 
pizzazz the audiences go nuts, even the harp player has done incredible 
and intricate stuff with a beautiful tone in the mid to low range, 
which the audience doesn't acknowledge.  I've also seen really mediocre 
harp players muddle through harp solos (no one on the present list) and 
then blow an eardrum dammaging squeek that sends me into convulsions, but 
sends the rest of the audience into frenetic applause.  I've done my 
share of ear damage to well-intentioned audiences, but if anyone can 
explain to me why blwoing a shatttering squeal is more entertaining than 
all the other stuff I do, I'd appreciate it.  

There are some really good harp players at the top end of of the harp 
and I'm not one of them--I'm jealous--who play with real musician ship up 
there, and I'm not talking about that.  I'm talking about hitting 9 blow 
with a bit of a bend loud, shrill, and that's all.  Why is that so 
entertaining?  
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	 Steve =#####= Harmonica Price!