Re: OVERBLOWING-"the 8-track of techniques"-NOT!!!!!!

["Mike Curtis" <ironman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard;

What's with the uncalled for nastiness and rudeness?  It's only
contradictory if you misread it.

 --mike

From: "Richard Hunter" <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:06 AM
Subject: RE: OVERBLOWING-"the 8-track of techniques"-NOT!!!!!!


>
> Mike Curtis wrote:
> <<
> "Full control" is a rather meaningless definition.  We can strive to do
> our very best, to do better, to play each note as well as another
> player, etc. But who among us would claim to have "full control" over
> even the "natural:" notes?
> <<
>
> That would be those of us who 1) work at it and 2) don't make a point of
> engaging in meaningless distinctions as per the nonsense above.  Try
> walking into a recording session and telling the producer that you don't
> have control over your instrument, really.  See how many callbacks you
> get, esepcially if you can manage to prove it.
>
> I could go on, but Mike has saved me the work of further argument by
> contradicting himself a few sentences later:
> <<
> Fortunately, we don't have to have absolute "full control".  It needs to
> be "good enough to get the job done".  This differs between players.
> For some, it's simply hitting the note (or something reasonably close).
> For others, it's hitting it and making it sound reasonably good.  And
> for some others, it's being able to hit it exactly on pitch and make it
> sound *exactly* like we want it to.
> <<
>
> So we come full circle, hmm?  "Make it sound *exactly* like we want it
> to" sounds suspiciously like being in full control.  How else does one
> get the instrument to do *exactly* what one wants?  By being sort of in
> control, maybe, and hoping that the results are magically, exactly what
> one wants?
>
> This brief dissection of self-contradictory gabble aside, George
> Brooks's original point was that it's damn hard to get a lot of bends
> exactly in tune, and this will affect the ability to use the new harp
> well in certain musical contexts.  I agree.  I plan to buy one also.
>
> Oh, and where the cosmos is concerned, yes, ultimately none of us is in
> full control.  That's God's job, and fortunately for the people on this
> list, He doesn't compete with harp players for session work.
>
> Thanks, Richard Hunter
> http://www.hunterharp.com
>
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