RE: [Harp-L] Re: Butter TV spot

[chicago bluesman <chicagobluesman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've watched the Butterfield TV spot a couple of times and it looks to me that he's a player who perhaps held the harp upside down, with the numbers underneath, in Sonny Terry fashion?  Maybe others already knew this or maybe I'm not perceiving it correctly on the clip.  Doesn't matter, particularly....but does it look like that to anyone else?

> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:26:25 +1100
> From: eviltweed@xxxxxxxxx
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Butter TV spot
> 
> Tom,
> 
> Regards your quote below... A lot of harp players have said or had it said
> about them that the harp mimics a human voice in terms of expressiveness and
> communication of emotion. It's a pretty bold and I would think controversial
> statement to say that you haven't heard ANY harp player since Butterfield
> "communicate true feeling with his playing". You can't possibly mean that in
> a truly objective sense?
> 
> I'm enjoying this analysis of Butterfield, and in that context I am asking
> this seriously.
> 
> Drew
> 
> 
> It's that pitch range of an alto that just grabs your senses and has a
> > communicative range you can't ignore.  And that to me is one of the most
> > impressive things about Butter, espcially "late period" Butter (before the
> > drugs and decline of the last ten years):  His playing was so emotional;
> >  Butter's comment that the harp was "the heart's horn" was no off the cuff
> > remark.  He saw the instrument as potentially expressive as the human voice
> > and to my ears was always striving to communicate true feeling with his
> > playing.  I haven't heard anyone do this since then.  And that's what makes
> > him so special, and why he sits in that small circle of icons we all revere.
> >  TOM ELLIS/Tom's Mics
> >
> >
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