[Harp-L] Re: Where did Norton get a 2016 in A?

["Stan Ruffo" <stan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow, 
I appreciate the vote of confidence?
I taught harmonica at Corcoran State Prison (where
Manson lives), in CA 
in the early to mid 90?s and Norton was a guest
artist at one point where 
he did a concert for the inmates. It was during
that visit he told me about 
his retuning.  

Another story Norton told me about was the
?Runaway? session with BR.
Norton said he had some sort of flu or cold and
was so sick and had a fever,
and could barely think straight that day?But he
was NOT going to miss this
golden opportunity to do this session. As I
recall, he got to the studio, and 
was asked to lay down one of his impeccable
CHROMATIC solos on the tune.
After a couple of attempts, they just weren?t real
happy but they understood 
he was feeling really sick and felt he bad he
couldn?t give them what they said 
they wanted.  As they thanked him for his efforts,
he said ?Can we try just 
one more thing??, to which they said, sure, why
not?  He then broke out 
four diatonic harps, got them organized in front
of him, and laid down the 
now infamous solo IN ONE TAKE!  Everyone?s mouth
in the studio that 
day just hung wide open in AWE!  Of course they
all loved it, and couldn?t 
believe what they had just seen and heard.  And
Norton said to them?
When I first listened to the tune, that?s kind of
how I thought it would sound best.

Oh and by the way, don?t let that Michael Polesky
fool you either?We all appreciate Norton?s 
talent on the Chromatic, but Michael is amazing on
Chromatic as well.

Steamin? Stan 
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:26:11 -0000
From: "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Fwd:  [Harp-L] Re: Where did Norton get a
2016 in A?
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About twenty years ago Norton told me that Frank
Huang had tuned a 
2016 down to A for him, also using solder.

There's no reason to doubt the version Stan tells
- Norton is a harp 
tinkerer and general gearhead, and it's entirely
possible that ten 
years later he had worn out the old 2016
reedplates and tuned himself 
up a new set.

Winslow

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Stan
Ruffo" <stan@...> wrote:

Norton told me (probably more than ten years ago),
that he retuned one himself from "C" to "A" using
solder_Because he thought it would be "neat".

Steamin' Stan
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