Re: [Harp-L] Re: diatonic harps not designed to play all the notes

["akc" <meadow.sweet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, for my money.. if you want to play all the notes, get yourself a 
chromatic.. as another poster says. Or a saxophone or something. The 
beautiful thing, for me, about a diatonic, is the arrangement of the 
notes... it forces you to improvise and, when you do, it comes out naturally 
more 'imaginative' than you'd probably be if you had all the notes at your 
disposal. At the jam I play at, a girl plays a flute.... to be fair, she's 
something of a novice... but - because she CAN play the melody line - she 
usually does. The guys would sooner play with me, because the harp finds 
harmonies in the tune that she'd never dream of.

I can understand the drive to make oneself more and more proficient at an 
instrument. If we aren't careful, though... we're like footballers who can 
run 50 yards balancing the ball on our noses. Very clever.. but useful?

A.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jaguire@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 1:10 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: diatonic harps not designed to play all the notes


> true the blues harp can't play "all the notes" ( except with overbends 
> which almost always sound pathetic no matter who plays them)........but, 
> the harp can play tons of tones that say, a piano can't play...all the 
> between tones that lie between the keys, hence the expressiveness which 
> chicks love. no? so if you include groovy bends and microtones , or say 
> hard bent chords james cotton-like, then a piano can't play nearly "all 
> the note" yes? don't get me wrong , i love a piano.
>
> cletus
>
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