Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Stevie Wonder's Harmonica

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"THANK YOU THANK YOU WINSLOW, you will FOREVER be my utmost and Ne   
Plus Ultra, Sans Pariel super hero and I take back everything I have   
ever said about you.

smokey-joe el Gratia Morte"
 
.....Now, wait a minute ;)   Since all I've EVER heard you say  (about 
Winslow) were the most flattering things ....most specifically about  his being the 
"Wizard" of Harp-l and Slidemeister too for that matter (as he's  just proven 
once again), if you "take it back"....then you're NOW insulting  him?  This is 
making it too weird and convoluted even for  me...but I know you're kidding.  
"Gratia morte"....Grateful Dead indeed  <G>..
 
Elizabeth
 
To Revolt is a natural tendency of life.  Even a  worm turns against the foot 
that crushes it. In general, the vitality and  relative dignity of an animal 
can be measured by the intensity of its instinct  to revolt. 
 Mikhail Bakunin  
"On Jun 2, 2007,  at 5:56 PM, Winslow Yerxa wrote:

> Danny -
>
> The  dailymotion video you are commenting on is different from the
> Youtube  video that Joe's comment addresses.
>
> The dailymotion clip has  Stevie accompanying another singer on Isn't
> She Lovely, played in F  (instead of E) on what I'm fairly sure is a
> Super 64X.
>
>  But Joe was writing before that video link was posted. He was  
>  referring
> to a video posted on Youtube of "True to your Heart" from the  film
> Mulan:
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyt6Emkv3iY
>
> In this one Stevie is  playing a completely different instrument. It  
> has
> an  opaque, dark-colored comb and silver colored covers. You can hear
> Stevie  early in the song, then he appears with the harp at about 1:25,
> first  playing and then singing.
>
> Stop the video at about 1:23 as he's  putting the harp up to his mouth
> and you'll notice two  things:
>
> 1) The dark color of the comb looks almost like the gray  of stainless
> steel.
>
> 2) The covers, while they extend to  the end of the comb the way a  
> Super
> 64 cover does, they  DO NOT taper downward toward the comb. The top
> cover  presents an  almost flat plane parallel to the comb.
>
> Clearly not a  Hohner.
>
> The tune begins in Bb, and it sounds to me like a C  instrument from  
> the
> slide ornaments and legatos (By the  way, listen closely to the intro
> and you'll hear Stevie play the Bb reed  bent down to Ab, then release
> it to Bb again).
>
>
>  Then at 2:27 it changes to the key of B-natural and Stevie starts to
>  solo again, but it's not stuff that plays gratefully in B on a C
>  instrument. It's the sort of thing that might work in A, D, G, C, F,
> Bb,  or even Eb, but not B. To me it sounds like C position - all the
> slide  moves fit, and he plays a fluter-tongued high tonic note,
> something most  easily done on a blow note.
>
> The video shows him with an  identical-looking instrument, but that's
> just what they shot for  display. Either he's playing an instrument in
> some other key or they  could have shifted the instrumental track up
> from B to C to record his  solo, then shifted track and harmonica back
> down a semitone. This is  something Stevie has done before, on Chaka
> Khan's "I Feel For you" where  the track was in F# and it was  
> shifted to
> allow him to  play in either F or G position, I forget which now, but
> you can tell  from the way he uses the high D.
>
> Winslow
>
> ---  BassHarp <bassharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Joe Leone  wrote:
>>>>>>> How many people noticed that the covers  on that '64' come
>> full
>>>>>>> flare all the  way to the ends of the chromo? It's not a
>>  hohner
>>
>> Anyone familiar with Hohner's line of Super 64's  will refute such a
>> statement.
>>
>> Simply take  another look at the video in question and if one notices
>>  approximately 3/4 of the way thru, immediately after he invites the
>>  audience to sing along with him, hit your pause, and note the big
>>  block
>> letters on the back of the comb spelling HOHNER. This is after  he
>> drops
>> his left hand away  momentarily.
>>
>> Also, anyone familiar with Stevie's  association with Hohner will be
>> aware that his technician all these  many years has been, and
>> presumably
>> still is, none other  than Frank Huang, originally of Hohner and of
>> course younger brother  of Cham-Ber Huang. Stevie plays Hohner!
>>
>>  Ref:
>>
>  http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/stevie%2Bwonder/video/ 
>  x1105h_stevie-wonder-et-jean-luc
>>
>> Danny
>>  _______________________________________________




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