Fwd: [Harp-L] Will Scarlett's tuning with Hot Tuna's Candy Man (was Allman Brothers)

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Will told me that he played a G harp, standard tuning, on all the Hot 
Tuna records. Even back then (late '60s) he was using overblows and 
overdraws, incorporating them seamlessly into his carefully 
articulated playing. When I first met him in 1974, he was playing 
that same G-harp, with metal comb dividers and wooden covers shaped 
something like the modern Turbolids (he had a patent, since expired, 
on the design), and nonchalantly incorporating overblows into his 
second-position playing. I had to stop him and say, "Dude - how are 
you getting that note in between Draw 4 and blow 5??" He then told me 
about overblows - and he was calling them overblows, just as Howard 
Levy later did.

Will lives in Berkeley, California. I've been in touch with him 
sporadically though not lately. I understand he's still gigging every 
now and then and teaches some. He recorded on a children's album with 
Jerry Garcia adn David Grisman sometime in the 1990s. 

Winslow

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Captron100@xxxx wrote:
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> In a message dated 1/27/2006 8:57:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> harp-l-request@xxxx writes:
> 
> yeah, i  grew up on that album and will scarlett's playing on
> hot tuna's first  (acoustic) album.  great stuff.
> What was the tuning Will Scarlett used in his playing Candy Man 
with Hot  
> Tuna?  What's Will up to these days?
> ron
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