Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica Pierre...

[John Watts <coast2coastmusic@xxxxxxxxx>]

In my opinion they had a better player right in front of them in Jai-Yi He, but 
did not pass him in favor of Pierre.  I think if Jai-Yi He had played one of his 
classical pieces on chromatic rather than using the stacked tremolos for the 
second round it would have been very evident who was the more talented 
musician.  I think they viewed what he was doing as a gimmick and didn't really 
listen to how musical his playing was on the stacked tremolos.

 
Regards,
John Watts, Coast to Coast Music
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From: Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, July 29, 2010 8:57:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica Pierre...

Rubben Emmanuelli wrote:
<What a great guy...it was a pleasure seeing this guy play!
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<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4yW61_XfMo

Yeah, I enjoyed it too.  

The question the first judge asked--"is harmonica big enough to win this show?  
Does it wow you enough?"--was a good question.  You could ask it of any 
instrument; it's the player, not the instrument, that makes the instrument 
riveting.

Pierre played well, but the second judge's comment that "aside form Larry Adler, 
you're the best technical harmonica player I've ever seen," wasn't a very 
informed one.  If you go to SPAH in any given year, you see a lot of players at 
or above that level of technical expertise.

Regards, Richard Hunter

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