Re: [Harp-L] Timbre, pitch, intonation

[moandabluz@xxxxxxx]

  I had a small epiphany a couple of years ago concerning harp 
playing... I got up to play a jam song with a professional band at a 
big benefit event and was happy and pleased as hell when country  music 
star Brad Paisley jumped onstage and joined us. I mean, he's considered 
by most people to be a musician...... I played pretty good for me and 
it was a thrill, but the next day I was talking to Paisley briefly and 
he complimented my playing, saying he had tried to to learn harp and he 
gave up on it.... I suspect he could play harp if he spent some time at 
it.. Hell, if he spent 100th the time I have spent on it, he'd probably 
be great, but he understood it wasn't easy.
  I don't consider myself much of a musician. I can play some bass and 
guitar, but I do love harp and I work on improving. I also have quit 
stressing out about the fact that I'm not nearly as good as I wish I 
was. As long as I can enjoy it, it's good.
Steve "Moandabluz" Webb
a fool for the harp in Minnesota


-----Original Message-----
From: BiscuitBoy714@xxxxxxx
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Timbre, pitch, intonation

   In a message dated 2/15/2007 2:21:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

No, it's  not necessary.  Just don't act surprised when other musicians 
tell
you  that harp players aren't musicians.



Twice in my life I've had college  music professors offer to get me in 
the
music department after hearing me play.  That's not a brag, just 
something to
make my point here. I've never experienced  having someone say that 
harmonica
player aren't musicians but if I did I'd  offer to switch instruments 
right on
the spot, at a gig or wherever we are.  Matter of fact a good friend 
and guitar
player (he can play just about  anything) teaches music and theory at
Mercyhurst College in Meadville Penn. and  he told me once that playing 
the
harmonica
by ear like that is one of the  biggest indicators of being a true 
musician
that he's ever seen. Jim is not one  to jive about anything either. I 
once
asked him to teach me the circle of 5ths  and other things and he told 
me that I

do all that stuff anyway and quit  worrying about it. It still bothers 
me that
I don't have the nomenclature  down for all of this, but what he said 
just let
me play without complicating  things and taking all the fun out of it. 
To
each their own.
           Randy
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