Re: overblows, was Same Old Thing

[Gatorharp@xxxxxxx]

i wrote...
<< that's amazing, 'cause the thing about howard levy and carlos del junco to
me is that they ~don't~ jump out at you.  and certainly not anymore than most
 people's regular bends.  and that, i think, is why i think it's funny when
 people complain about the sound of overblows.  with even the best players,
you can tell when they are playing "normal" bent notes...excepting those like
levy, del junco, iceman, etc who have worked at minimizing the differences in
bent vs non-bent notes.
 i'm sure mike has a better ear than the rest of us, what with his perfect 
pitch and all (that's meant to be friendly and funny, but i hate drawing little 
smiley faces)>>


to which ironmancurtis@xxxxxxxxxxxx replied in part...
<< In any case, yes even Howard Levy's overblows are pretty obvious to me, and
 I know he works VERY hard at minimizing differences.  But I think I could
 show you what I'm listening for (in person), and I bet you'd hear it, too. >>

fair enough.  i guess that i should preface that with the fact that mostly 
when i listen to music, i'm not sitting there thinking about how they might have 
gone about doing what they did.  i'm just taking it in, as a whole.  i'm not 
~trying~ to find something that will jump out at me.  if something does jump 
out at me, it's usually something either really cool or really bad...which is 
to say that, if i were to actually notice an overblow as something different, 
it would be out of place.
when listening for something other than pleasure, such as learning a song, i 
usually notice it.  maybe the reason i don't notice levy's is that i'm not 
sitting aound thinking about doing flecktones or trio globo covers.

steven j gatorman