Re: [Harp-L] Re: Seamless Overblow Challenge

[The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>]

My point is that there IS some stuff that can be convincingly played using those techniques.


Using reverse logic to analyze your statement below, we are agreed.


The point is that there is some stuff that can't be convincingly played using 
those techniques.







-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>; harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, Jul 24, 2011 9:24 am
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Seamless Overblow Challenge


The icema wrote: 
<The idea is to use some OB's, notes created through bending techniques, etc, in 
such a way that they sound <musical and pleasantly uniform enough to pull off a 
performance to be enjoyed by the widest general audience - <not just a small 
panel of pundits.

The point is that there is some stuff that can't be convincingly played using 
those techniques.

I don't think you need to be a pundit to know it, either.

I also know that plenty of people disagree, and they're welcome to take it as 
far as they like.

Thanks, Richard Hunter



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