[Harp-L] Re: Plagiarism

[Phil Eich <phil_side@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that it's a combination of a lot of different
factors: the nature of the blues, a musician's
creativity, the youth the instrument etc.

I think that the youth of the harp is something that
doesn't get talked about a lot. The guitar has been
around a long, long time and the harp...well...hasn't.
 The guitar has existed in different forms but it
still remains that mankind has had thousands of years
to hone its abilities on the guitar in many different
musical forms. No matter how proficient we at, we are
still infants to the instrument because the history to
draw from it is limited. 
Run back to the beginning of the guitar and you would
probably find Pythagoras and Aristotle wondering why
everybody keeps ripping off Socrates' riffs. 

It seems to me that we're in a transitional period of
the harmonica, where there's a group of of purists, a
group of iconoclasts and a group that's trying to
combine both. Whether it's overblowing or technique or
gear or technology, the harmonica is moving somewhere
and thoughts like "Is this ripping off someone's
music?  How can we honor tradition while still moving
forward? Tongue block or pucker?" help to advance our
instrument. Can you imagine the stuff people will come
up with 50, 100, 200 years from now?




       
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