Re: [Harp-L] Trio Polifonic Harmonica Trio

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah but I did mean 'position'. To say what mode he was playing in would explain the musical aspect, independent of what instrument was being used.
You could play any mode in any key on any chromatic harp, but the breathing patterns (which is what interested me) would be different.
What I wanted to know was: 'What key and on what particular keyed harmonica is he playing?'. That translates to 'position', as far as I can see.
RD

>>> "G. E. Popenoe" <gpopenoe@xxxxxxxxx> 30/04/2008 15:50 >>>
Sounds like it is 6/8 or 12/8 time. Something in threes for sure.

When playing chromatic, I don't know if "position" is the best word to  
use as mentioned earlier in the thread. "Mode"  as in "minor mode"  
might be a little more appropriate term even if you change modes by  
playing a scale starting from a different "position"....

Oh hell, use "position" of you want with harp players. With anyone  
else you might want to use "mode."



Gary Popenoe

On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Rick wrote:
>> That's wonderful! I'll have to wait till I'm at home to work out  
>> what key/position he's in. That's really fluid and rhythmic  
>> simultaneously. Is that a known melody they are playing? I'm  
>> assuming it falls into the Klezmer bag, no?
>
> It doesn't sound very much like any Klezmer I've ever heard.  If we  
> were all specialists in eastern European music I'm sure we'd hear  
> some connection.  Since it's a Romanian group, perhaps it's some  
> form of Romainian folk music or dance music.
>
> The famous Klezmer song is "Romania Romania" but the Klezmer cats I  
> know make fun of the old people that request it.  It's the "When the  
> Saint's Go Marching In" of Klezmer -- the one Klezmer song the  
> civilians know.  And that song sounds nothing like this wonderful  
> harmonica band.
>
> However, Klezmer is absolutely expected to grow and change, so maybe  
> this is what it sounds like in Romanian now.
>
> Before he actually became a Klezmer musician himself, Andy Statman  
> studied with a bunch of Eastern European music masters who were all  
> living in dire poverty in NYC.  Communism was still the law of the  
> land in their countries, and cultural anhilation was the order of  
> the day, so they'd all blown their homes.  Each master represented a  
> completely different form of Eastern European music, and confusing  
> one with any other would have been as weird to them as confusing  
> Bluegrass with 70's Funk.  One afternoon Andy took me on a musical  
> tour of Eastern Europe with his amazing record collection, and he  
> kind of opened my eyes, if only for that day.
>
> At one point he played me several different kinds of music that were  
> native JUST to Istanbul, which I realize is not in Europe.  Each one  
> sounded really different from the others.  Amazingly, he had 78's of  
> music that was only played in Istanbul gay bars.
>
> Has anyone counted the time signature of this tune of Trio Polifonic?
>
> K
>
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