[Harp-L] Harmonica -eee

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For many years now, I have wanted to be a harmonica player. I don't mind that I sound "harmonica-eee" every now and then. 
Steve Webb in Minnesota
Where I screwed up my solo last weekend on Help Me Make It Through the Night so much that it didn't even sound harply at all.

---- Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> You guys are thinking too hard.
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> When something has the quality of goo, you say it's gooey.
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> If it has a lot of lumps, you say it's lumpy.
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> If it's like ice, you say it's icy.
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> I think that Iceman was going beyond simply describing a harmonica-like sound, though. He's trying to identify (and disparage) something all too many harmonica players do - going out fo their way to play a characteristic harmonica sound just because they can (or doing it without even thinking about it because it's habitual) - instead of being musical.
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> Hence "harmonicaeee."
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> Yeah, it looks bad on the page. But try saying it out loud: "Ugh, that sounds all harmonicaeee. Don't get too close, it might spatter on you and it's nasty stuff to get off."
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> Winslow 
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