Re: [Harp-L] What's a double Stop??/ Harmonica terms

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

Ok, the subject came up that someone should write a dictionary of  
harmonica terms. Well, there IS such a compilation but it is musical  
terms and it is (mainly) aimed at music in general. Some have  
application(s) to some instruments, others..well...others.

Example: What if I were to tell you I was doing a 'draw slur-gliss  
down to a flatted A'. Would you know what I was talking about?

How about: Smear, shake, rattle, roll? How about a stairstep, How  
about a 2-1 waterfall or stairstep? How about a 1/12 1/12 ascending  
or decending step or fall (usually done with corner switching).  
Glottal stop, cough, chipped note, chirp, walking INTO a note,  
dropping out OF a note? Slide jab, stab, or flick? (chromo)

How about a brrrr, a purrr, growl, snort, gargle? How about a draw  
3rd 4th 5th combination? (the 'train' sound)? How about playing off  
the sharped key? (chromo only). How about hand positions.

 What I think happened was that in various people's zeal to try to  
explain what they were doing, they used nomenclature that they  
thought (at the time) would make it fairly clear. Nothing could be  
farther from the truth. One man's canoe is another man's garden planter.

Time for me to stop now and go practice my 'combinations'.

smokey-joe