Re: Inspiration - compilation from J.J. Milteau

[Xavier Lanusse-Cazalé <xlcazale@xxxxxxx>]

Mojo Red wrote:

>... and another overbending masterpiece from
>Eric Chafer called "Intro".
>

Hey Mojo, just to let you know, Eric does not do overbending. He uses a 
harp he built for himself with (what I think is named) spanish augmented 
tuning or something like that. He gets a complete chromatic scale with 
just regular draw bends but as you may guess, on a 4 octave harp the 
bends get pretty tough on the two ends of the range.
Nevertheless, he's a true master of this tuning and believe me, after 
trying a similar harp, I really don't believe it's any easier than 
overblowing ;)
 About a year and a half ago, Brendan Power mentioned him on harp-l 
after attending a harp festival in France and we had some discussions on 
harp-l about him.
I'm glad JJ put some of his stuff on this record so he gets a little 
exposure.

Take care,

Xavier, Who'll get to hear Eric next WE ;)