Re: [Harp-L] Irish Tunes in Relative Minor.

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Shaw nicely addressed your other queries, but I'd like to reply
to your apparently confused understanding of my statements as quoted
below.



I said that I can be heard acoustically - no amplification at all -
with a large group of fiddlers. While I do also play amplified, I did
not state that I could be heard acoustically while amplified - that
would be something of a contradiction.



The video link I posted shows me first completely unamplified, and then
amplified, in the space of a few seconds. First, I'm playing
unamplified (a country-tuned Lee Oskar in D) while walking across a
stage in a large theatre while six or seven percussionists and an equal
number of cellists play a groove (maybe some guitarists were also
playing; I couldn't say). Someone halfway back in the theater picks me
up up loud and clear on their cellphone camera during my unamplified
travel. Then I arrive at a microphone, and I'm not as loud as I was
when I was playing directly the house acoustically. While all 120
musician were not blazing away at that moment, it's nonetheless plain
that a harmonica can be heard acoustically over a dozen or so
supposedly louder instruments from quite a distance!



Someone else posted link a to a clip of me in a quite different
situation where I am amplified because I'm leading a large group. I
didn't originally post this link because, unlike the first clip, it
doesn't show me in a truly unamplified  situation.



Winslow

--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Joel Thomas <theloveboxquartet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was amused to read a recent post from Winslow about being able to be
heard acoustically over a number of fiddles, whilst admitting he was
miked up! I've busked acoustically in St.Malo in Brittany and with the
wind whipping down a wide avenue where even the biggest lung'd players
wouldn't be heard from across the street! played raucous sessions with
dancing where the only answer was to put my finger in my ear just to be
able to hear myself play, so I completely sympathise with any acoustic
players, doing sessions and the like. Play on the high end.