RE: [Harp-L] Design project, Harmonica Mic - please help

[joe glover <megashifty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's funny how this conversation has gone on a complete tangent away from the original help that i needed,

 

the only person who has helped me so far is Geoff Atkins, who is being great in assisting me and giving me ideas on the matter, 

 

could some other people just look back to my original message, and if you can be bothered, try and help me out.

 

thankyou, Joe
 
> From: leone@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Design project, Harmonica Mic - please help
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 23:12:26 -0400
> To: celtiac@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> On May 24, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Splash wrote:
> 
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Joe and Cass Leone" <deleted>
> > As far as trumpets, THEY are one of the
> >> easiest. There are only a finite combinations of valve positions. The
> >> rest is done by embouchure. Once you can get the 4 (major)
> >> embouchures, you're home. Changing embouchures QUICKLY is where it's
> >> at, and that's what takes the practice.
> >>
> >> smokey joe (not the BBQ grill) and the Cafe s (not the musical)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Trumpet... easiest?
> 
> Well......ONE of the easiest. In a comparative sort of way. I'm not 
> saying it's easy....or everyone would do it. But compared to other 
> instruments that I have tried, I thought it was more straightforward. 
> You had a chart of fingering positions. So instead of learning the 
> notes as letters, you learned as 'valve combinations'. Then once you 
> did that, you put them together. So, meanwhile, there are a number of 
> tunes that you can do WITHOUT moving valves. (mostly military stuff) 
> They are done with embouchure only. Taps is an example. You start 
> with ANY combination of depressions (or NOT) and just change 
> embouchures. i.e. flabby lips, firm lips, tight lips, strained thin 
> lips. Reason? Many of these were originally done on a bugle (no..or 1 
> valve). (Mine has 1).
> 
> I have trouble now because I have no way of locking down a false 
> plate to my jaw bottom. It is fractured 6 times, dislocated 2, and 
> full of pins & wires.(no room left) and if I got posts, if I ever 
> fell on my fractured face, my jaw would turn to caulking. :(
> >
> > Not for me. Les Brown's 1st Trumpet back in the days when they 
> > played for
> > Jackie Gleason in Miami was Bobby Wetzel.
> 
> Ah, the old 'Band of Reknown'. For a while we had Bruce (Bud) Brown 
> coming to our jam. Then he moved back north. He played sax in his 
> brother's band. I was more into Lee Morgan, Maynard.
> 
> > He tried to teach me but I just couldn't get it. Only three 
> > buttons for all those notes? Didn't register with my brain wiring.
> 
> Hmmm, it's easier than Algebra?
> >
> > And getting the tone was nearly impossible.
> 
> Well, one thing was for sure (for me, anyway). There was no way to 
> even conSIDer trying for Harry James' tone. He was the benchmark. 
> Still IS.
> 
> > One time Eddie Harris was over and he took the sax mouthpiece and 
> > put it on the trumpet and handed it to
> > me.
> 
> You knew some serious people.
> 
> > I played it, and it sounded half OK. But it was easier for my 
> > brain to
> > deal with "One button, one note" Hold them all down except the one 
> > you want
> > to sound..
> 
> No, no no no no. don't work that way. Some of the combinations change 
> as you go upscale.
> 
> > . the longer the tube the lower the note, Use the thumb for
> > octaves... that I could understand.
> >
> > "A man's gotta know his limitations." -- Dirty Harry
> >
> > Splash
> >
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