Re: [Harp-L] tone

["Vern Smith" <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

Isn't that "phrasing" or "articulation" and not "tone"?

Vern

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jon kip" <jonkip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 2:38 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] tone


> the personal, recognizable tone of a player, any 
> instrument, is not  as much the tone of a single note, but 
> how the player gets from note  to note...at that point, 
> the personality shows up.
>
> and I suppose this becomes less a rule when you think 
> about players  who always  growl, snort, or have a 
> distinctive vibrato on that one  note you happen to be 
> listening to....
>
> still, it's what's being done with/to the series of notes, 
> not the  tone of the note that makes a unique, 
> identifiable statement.
>
> just a thought,
>
> ymmd.
>
> whatever
>
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