It was as you say a generalisation and useful for what it was intended
to be useful for. It was scaled in a very gross way and because of this
it is very assailable in terms of actual detail and exceptions. My
expectation was always that it would be challenged I'm just surprised it
took as long as it did for this to happen. Deficiency isn't my word nor
do I believe any of the instruments I quickly catalogued are deficient
in any way.
I
think one of the biggest issues with harmonica is they aren't very
legato.
Nowhere in that sentence do I say that harmonicas cannot be legato. I
do think the Ode To Joy challenge did find some challenges in this
regard but I do not mean to say that harmonicas cannot be played in a
legato fashion or that they should always or never be played in any
certain fashion.
Music is as always about expression. People should choose whatever
instrument they feel allows them to express whatever it is they are
wanting or needing to express. I embrace the broad palette of choices
human kind has devised for musical expression. I would be rather a dull
world if all we had for music were harmonicas or any other instrument
for that matter. I'm trying to come up with an instrument I don't
really like. Maybe those Tesla coil things with the analogue computers
driving them. The distortion hurts my ears but even those were fun for
the first 15 minutes or so. fjm