Re: [Harp-L] "Harp Preparation" Prior to a Gig

"ChipComcast" <jandkday@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:55:53 -0500

My prep before a gig is to call and re-confirm the venue
to avoid a double booking! :-)

JD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierre" <slavio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] "Harp Preparation" Prior to a Gig

>
> I would avoid milk products especially cottage cheese for a day. This is a
> singers tip and I agree, although I believe this tip is contraversial. It
> may depend on a persons chemistry.
>
> Cottage cheese and milk make my saliva much thicker, probably due to
lactose
> which is a type of sugar. It slows down articulation and makes playing and
> speach more difficult.
>
> Pierre.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Allen Stratyner" <astratyner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:40 PM
> Subject: RE: [Harp-L] "Harp Preparation" Prior to a Gig
>
>
> >   Prior to a gig I always play each note on each harp I'll be using for
> > the
> > performance. If my last gig was an amplified gig - and I haven't touched
> > my
> > harps since then -  I often find that I need to adjust the reed action,
> > and/or unstick a note due to dried saliva. More often than not these
> > adjustments are my own fault since I sometimes find myself playing a
> > little
> > harder in order to hear myself in some amplified situations, and this
> > effects the gapping. Also sometimes I'll pack up my harps without
> > remembering to tap them out hence the stuck notes.   My best,
> >                 Allen
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Nicolas Fouquet
> > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:46 PM
> > To: JamesDSchultz@xxxxxxx; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Harp-L] "Harp Preparation" Prior to a Gig
> >
> >
> > Actually, prior a gig, I am trying to play less as possible, even not
> > touch
> > the harmonica at all, because it happen, one day, that I did "empty
> > myself"
> > playing to much before the gig, and once I went onstage, it was not very
> > good. Though, the people did appreciate it, and asked me 5 times to come
> > back to play one more song after I left the stage, well, I had the
strange
> > feeling that me and my harps were empty. I do not really know haw to
make
> > ye
> > understand. That's how I did feel at the moment: empty. It was not like
> > when
> > you're trying to catch a girl and feel shy or/and silly (I always feel
> > silly
> > anyway!!), but something similar. I had the feeling that absolutely no
> > note
> > were resonating, that my harmonicas were out of tune, unresponsive...
> >
> > So, since, I do not play before a gig, but I am used to clean my
> > harmonicas
> > instead. I also keep a glass of cold water with me to rinse and cold my
> > mouth ad my breath as not reed get stuck with condensation: it is always
> > confusing when you walk on stage, (I am used to perform alone) and take
> > your
> > harmonica, seem to blow but no sound comes out! Then, I try to turn it
> > into
> > comical joke, but anyway, even if the audience do not mind, I do!
> >
> > So, cleaning harmonicas, and Cold Water. That's my harp preparation
prior
> > a
> > gig. When I was busking in the cold Galway's main street, I was used to
> > put
> > a tiny bit of vaseline on the cover-plates as my liàps do not stick then
> > bledds (bleeding is not a big deal, but then, the blood sticks your lips
> > to
> > the harmonicas and that's a problem, and the morning after, as soon as
you
> > yawn, you understand that you're gonna have pain for the 4 coming days)!
> >
> > Froggy
> >
> > JamesDSchultz@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Hello All
> >
> > I am curious to find out if any body else performs
> > "Harp Preparation", prior to a Gig.
> >
> > I hold my Harp a bit slanted, and after a night of playing, and
sometimes
> > being a bit overenthusiastic with the Trills, I find
> > that I wear a bit of skin off, below my bottom lip. I'm try to get a
> > callous, but it's not working too well. Fingers are better at that.
> > Although
> > Beer
> > often helps to lubricate, while playing, I find that if I rub a small
> > amount
> > of
> > Peanut Oil on a napkin, and softly rub it across my Harps, not
drenching,
> > or
> > pushing the napkin fibers into the holes, while still home, it gives me
> > that
> > little edge.
> >
> > They probable sell it already, in a Big Music Store, next to the Gorilla
> > Snot, for $6.95. And it's just Peanut Oil in a fancy bottle.
> >
> >
> > I am curious to find out if any body else performs
> > any type of "Harp Preparation", prior to a Gig.
> >
> > Thanks, Jim
> >
> >
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