RE: [Harp-L] Corner switches

[d peer <dpeer2000@xxxxxxx>]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7cd-L6fUiA


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> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:52:01 -0700
> From: winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Corner switches
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> The best way to understand it is to hear it first. 
> 
> Check out Stevie Wonder, under the pseudonym "Eivets Rednow" (try spelling that backwards) playing "Alfie." 
> 
> You'll hear the "Stevie pizz" (pizz - pronounced like "pitz" - being short for pizzicato, a violin term that means to pluck the violin string with the fingers instead of playing it with the bow). 
> 
> This gives a very distinctive type of staccato (a note that has a distinct beginning attack and ending cutoff, usually played for as short a time as possible).
> 
> Winslow Yerxa
> 
> Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
> 
> --- On Wed, 10/21/09, Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Corner switches
> To: "Robert Bonfiglio" <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 9:13 AM
> 
> What's "the Stevie pizz"? (I googled that phrase and got nothing.)
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I just started to practice the Henry Cowell Harmonica Concerto for my
> > Lincoln Center concert with the American Symphony Orchestra and I forgot
> > that the corner switches in the last movement are wicked.
> >
> > Listen: http://www.robertbonfiglio.com/rb_Cowell_3rd.mp3
> >
> > I also forgot that I have to imitate the string playing pizzicato for a
> > long passage and here I have to go to spit position and do staccato tonguing
> > and even use the Stevie pizz. on some draw notes so it sounds like strings.
> >  Good thing I played so much diatonic in spit position.
> >
> > harmonically yours,
> >
> > Robert Bonfiglio
> > http://www.robertbonfiglio.com
> >
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