Subject: Re: [Harp-L] XB-40 recordings

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Thanks Smokey, appreciate that. Perhaps a wee lesson would help too? I'm  
likely to gravitate towards an A as you know, so maybe I'll get one while out 
 there (if I make it).
 
No worries about it being 'new', though. You were one of only two  players 
(Charles, the other) who got to try out MY brand new C B-Rad at  GSHC last 
November. I hadn't even tried it yet, so it was certainly new. (I've  since 
gotten my Bb B-Rad as well). I'm not overly hung up on that as long as  
someone has alcohol to keep harps wiped down between players and it's between  
people I'm friends with/know well. You and Charles are good friends.
 
SPAH's still up in the air right now, though. Have some major medical  
issues going on I'm not sure will be resolved in time for me to manage to get to 
 SPAH. I'm still hoping, especially as it's the first East Coast SPAH and a 
huge  deal for me as a New Yorker. Wish me luck.
 
Elizabeth
 
"I will bring a C XB-40 to spah. You can try it out and see what you  
think.... :)  (It's new)
smo-joe

On Jul 4, 2011, at 1:30 AM,  EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hmm, yes. The F's sound more plausible, thx.  I'm a big fan of Marv's.  
He's 
> one of my favourite people and  become one of my 'must spend time with'  
> musicians at  SPAH/GSHC/Buckeye/Williamsburgh.
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
> "I  seem to remember Marv telling me that his XB-40s are in F and F#.   
He  
> plays them cross-harp with many hall musicians who play their  chromatics 
in  
> C.  I think that his guitar is a Baby  Taylor.
> 
> What a musician he is!  He has an encyclopedic  knowledge of the chords 
that 
> accompany almost any song  that you  can play.  He plays the fast part of 
 
> Wm Tell   Overture.
> 
> Ver
> 
> 
> On Jul 3, 2011, at 7:13  PM, EGS1217@xxxxxxx  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> To Winslow -  how about Marv Munroe who plays two (in  a specially  
rigged  
>> rack) routinely, while he accompanies  primarily chromatic  players on 
his 
> 
>> guitar at every convention?  I'm  assuming C, C# but that might not be 
the 
> case at 
>> all? I  might have  once asked him what keys he plays but don't now   
>> remember.
>> 
>> Elizabeth
> 
>