Re: [Harp-L] OB, CX or XB?

[fjm <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Avenger of the downtrodden writes:

> How many of you actually know why you are playing what you are
> playing when you are playing? If someone put a gun to your head could
> you play a Dm arpeggio on a C harp right now?  How many could play a
> 3rd inversion F major arppegio without thinking? How about an Fm7b5
> arppegio?  These are rudementary skills that most other
> instrumentalist learn in the first few weeks of lessons. Theory does
> not care how you get your notes or if you have an altered instrument.

Hyperbole at it's best, who needs Iron Mike when we have Chris?  For a 
guy who bowed out of playing Night in Tunisia because the venue had 
become too contentious you sure seem to be throwing down the gauntlet an 
awful lot.  I realise the next paragraph in your post qualifies the 
above but why say it if you have to take it all back at the end?  Is the 
goal here a discussion or taking jabs at people?  I'm really curious.  fjm