Re: [Harp-L] Are we a more musically educated community?

[MANFRED WEWERS <mwewers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The more harmonica stuff you have to offer, the better off you are.  So many different harmonicas-so little time.
 
Manfred

--- On Sat, 3/26/11, michael rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: michael rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Are we a more musically educated community?
To: "Gary Lehmann" <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Joe Leone" <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx, "MANFRED WEWERS" <mwewers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011, 6:45 PM


I have done 8 gigs in the last two weeks on bass harp.  I have
recorded around 10 bass harp sessions.  Being the only person in your
city with a skill people didn't know they wanted until they saw and
heard it can create work.
Michael Rubin

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If there was any real work (read employment) in chord or bass, I would
> consider it.
> As it is, I consider my attempt to master the harmonica (good luck) to be a
> labor of love rather than any realistic investment in my (dwindling) musical
> future.
> Chord just doesn't get me--God love those who it does--looks like a lot of
> work (read headache).
> Gnarly
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:47 AM, michael rubin
> <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I do not know if Jason Ricci and David Payne count as young players,
>> but you would be hard pressed to find a more influential player to
>> today's youth than Jason.  I run a harp band and list member Brad
>> Trainham bought a chord for the project and is doing well.
>>
>> Personally I think the problem is they have stopped making the
>> harmonetta, which is imo a superior chord harp.  I am bringing it
>> back!  I also am trying to bing bass harp into non harmonicaband
>> situation.  I am THE bass player for one band and play a little in 3
>> other bands as well as multiple recordings.
>> Michael Rubin
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Joe Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:49 AM, MANFRED WEWERS wrote:
>> >
>> >>   I don't think it's cost; it's attitude.
>> >
>> > Actually THIS is exactly what I felt but didn't want to say it. I was
>> > trying to be more genteel, and was trying not to attract the wrath of the
>> > younger players. Whom might take my comments as an diss to their impatience.
>> > In this 'instant' world, the youth of today have gotten used to quick
>> > results. Computers, blackberrys, notepads. I don't think chord gives you the
>> > instant gratification that the lead instruments (both kinds: country AND
>> > western...i.e. chromatic & diatonic) give you.
>> >>
>> >> Everybody wants to be a lead player.  Unlike the diatonic, the chord
>> >> harmonica has made few inroads into the other musical genres, after all
>> >> they're for trios.  How many chord players do you see at the blues and jazz
>> >> jams?   Maybe if a Levy, Filisko or Bonfiglio started playing them...?
>> >
>> > I think it takes a lot of dedication to play chord. A LOT. Trying to
>> > play along with just about anything required a lot of work, many many
>> > movements, and a lot of injuries (teeth, lips, tongue, corners of the mouth,
>> > etc.). Chord can be a face buster. And I feel that may players don't see a
>> > tangible return for the effort expended. Chord is definitely a case where
>> > you would have to be radically in love with it.
>> >
>> > smokey-joe in beautiful down town Florida.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Manfred from cold Toronto
>> >
>> >
>> >
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