Re: [Harp-L] What other instruments do you play?

["Ed Kliman" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Besides diatonic and chromatic, I do gig/session work on electric bass,
acoustic and electric guitars, Dobro, hand drums/percussion, mandolin and
accordion.  On solo gigs, I regularly strum or fingerpick guitar or Dobro
while playing harp in a neck rack.

During a 2008 tour as musical director and resident composer for the
Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, I had to learn Japanese classical music
forms in order to write/play music for a Noh-influenced production of
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" and then taught myself taiko drums and
bamboo flute, which are the only instruments traditionally permitted.

I recently got a gopachend (Indian stringed instrument) and worked up a
dandy version of Howlin' Wolf's "I Asked For Water, She Brought Me
Gasoline" on it.  As soon as someone requests a Wolf tune played on a
traditional South Asian instrument, I'm ready......

Ed

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