Some people hear are getting upset that we are talking about GROUPS and not Harmonicas, yes I agree Slidemeister has spelled out all of it's NEAT & TIDY rules and those who choose to stay their should follow them if it suits their needs. It is their perogative. The fact of the matter is on Harp-l we CAN even discuss these issues because to me they ARE Harmonica related. Yes, this is a hot topic for me because I have worked many years with SPAH to bring down the dividing line between Chromatic and Diatonic players in years past. I'm not saying SM contributes to that but we should be aware of that division that SPAH has worked so hard to dissolve. After all the diatonic was here long before our cousin with the button showed up in the 1920's. I got an underlying impression. I play both but have a deep respect for the 'forefather harp" (the Richter Diatonic). Show a little respect is all I'm saying,
Because I play both and have a hard time separating the two, I will stay here and grow as a player of the Harmonica.
I for one like freedom of speech, and I don't want to have to re-think everything I want to say or write about Harmonica....That is what I love about Harp-l and I never ever felt my Chromatic posts were usurped or sidetracked by Diatonic players....
If more Chromatic players showed up here we'd have more Chromatic discussions it's that simple. I do understand that SM is a dedicated forum....but for me I'll stick with a forum that openly and democraticly handles all things harmonica uncensored.....I like my freedom. I also still believe we learn from each other on diatonic and chromatic, that is way so many from SM come by here.
I would like to take a moment to thank fjm for always keeping oour house in order here in a very discreet yet forceful and effective way.
Respectfully and Harmonically, Rob Paparozzi
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Payne" <dmatthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harp L Harp L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Diatonic Sounds on a Chromatic ("I was Banned")
Here's my take on the slidemeister thing. I have never subscribed to the belief of each type of harmonica being its own separate entity. They are all harmonicas, chromatic, diatonic, tremolo, chord and I play them all -minus a bass, which I don't have, with equal enthusiasm. It would be like somebody playing alto saxophone refusing to talk about tenor saxophones. That's really how I see it. And, my originally being a strictly diatonic player from age 5 to age 32 has made me a far different chromatic player than I would have been otherwise.
A.J. has nailed me a time or two, but I always understood the justness his motivations. On the flip side of that, there's been some times were I was flatout making references to Richter note placement, but gave the disclaimer "I am talking about Richter Chromatics of course" and he was OK with talk about the Richter octaves and other double stops in that manner.
Here is the deal: there is a pervasive dynamic at play here, besides the fact it's his forum and he can do whatever he wants with it, he has to deal with. Even though such division and exclusion is against the very fiber of my love of all harmonicas, and I run my forum the exact opposite way, I agree and support in general what he does. The chromatic used to be more popular than the diatonic among serious players at least, and in the last few decades, the diatonic has usurped it. Chromatic players otherwise really don't have a place where they can freely exchange with one another without being bogged down by diatonic discussion. There are just so many diatonic players out there. The chromatic harmonica needs for him to do what he does. Slidemeister fulfills a real need for a place for them to discuss what they do. There needs to be places like this for different harmonicas, and there aren't, that's the main reason I started up the chord harmonica
board and the tremolo/octave board on the Elk River Harmonicas forum a while back. As far as I know, there isn't such a forum for bass harmonica players. Somebody ought to start one. If I were a bass player, I would. We need to be talking about everything, to keep everything alive and there are a million places to talk about diatonics. That's why A.J. runs his ship the way he does.
Dave
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