Re: [Harp-L] Sam Hintin's video lessons - new developments

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

The thing that sets Sam Hinton apart is not the musical style of his repertoire (though I guess you could call it sort of old-timey). Rather, it's what he does with the harmonica that is really interesting.

He has a highly developed ability to play melody, rhythmic chords AND an independent quasi-bass line all at once on the diatonic harmonica.

He also puts this facility to work on two other kinds of harmonica:

==The Chordomonica, a harmonica that looks like a chromatic except it has two slide buttons instead of one, which can be used alone or in combination to play six different four-note chords anywhere on the harp, together with, of course, melodies.

==The pipe flue harmonica. Instead of reeds, this harmonica has miniature organ pipes. You can hear that he's using harmonica playing techniques, but the sound coming out is more like a calliope.

You can read more about Sam at:

http://www.samhinton.org/harmonica/index.html

He has a double CD out. You can hear some samples from it at CD Baby:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/samhinton

Winslow

--- On Thu, 7/24/08, mark wilson <markwilson53@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: mark wilson <markwilson53@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Sam Hintin's video lessons - new developments
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 3:16 PM

After 7 years of tracking harp-l, I thought I'd heard of just about  
everyone.  Who is Sam Hinton?
Is he an old timey player, blues, jazz???

Thanks
Mark
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