RE: [Harp-L] articulated neck rack

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

> From: Joel Fritz

> This weekend I got out my rack and fooled with it for awhile.  I realized 
> that one of my problems--one that cann't be solved by my practicing more or 
> learning new techniques--is the angle of the harmonica.  I can't get the 
> harmonica at a comfortable angle in my mouth without either trimming a 
> couple of inches off the front of my face or shortening my neck a bit.  
> This is the result of the constant radius of the circle the harmonica 
> travels in in the rack and the fixed position of the harmonica in the 
> clamp.

LOL - Years ago I had this big idea of playing the harmonica and bodhran at 
the same time so I bought a rack (Hohner I think..).  No matter what I did, 
the only way I could get the harp satisfactorily in my mouth sufficiently to 
play it was to jut my whole head and lower jaw forward and slightly down.  
Ten minutes of that and I would have needed physiotherapy.  At least, the 
traditional music world was spared this cock-eyed notion.  I always put it 
down to the fact that nothing ever really fits me anyway.  I'm the kind of 
guy who can make a £100 pair of Levis look like I just picked them out of 
Woolworths' reject dump.  I know I'm not helping, but it's heartening 
sometimes to hear that it isn't just you.

Steve


http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/trad_irish_harmonica

Steve's CD of mostly traditional Irish,  "Blowing Through The Reeds,"  is 
now available!  Hear clips at http://www.gjk2.com/steveshaw/cd.htm

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