Re: [Harp-L] Re: Eivets Rednow Question

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Tom Ball wrote:

> OK so here I was following the Stevie thread, and now have yet a different query:
> 
> On the sound sample that was provided, ie: http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B000001A9R/ref=pd  take a listen to "Alfie."
> 
> So what gives at 0:09?
> 
> This probably sounds like a bonehead question, but fact is, I'm a pretty poor excuse for a chrom player and don't really know what the instrument is capable of...  I'm assuming that pseudo-plucked, pizzicato-sounding effect is done with studio trickery?  Please tell me Stevie isn't actually doing that somehow.....?
> 
Stevie IS doing it. It's sort of a spitting deal. He is, after all, a pucker player. One Marcello Batista (Argentina) is also adept at this and the only other person I have heard that uses it much..Sometimes, maybe too much. lolol

> thanks,
> Tom Ball  <--blushing at his chromatic ignorance