Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica and University

[philharpn@xxxxxxx]

I recently attended a weekend jazz workshop at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan with a richter chromatic (Hohner Slide Harp) and they treated me just like another horn (sax) player. Their only concern was that I had a CHROMATIC instrument.


Nobody really cared what I played -- just that I could play the notes.



Phil Lloyd




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From: Emile Damico <oatss_oatflakes@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 5:56 am
Subject: [Harp-L] Harmonica and University


In the USA you don't go to learn but to improve you musical
abilities. You must first audition to see if your at a high
enough level to get in.

The Esther Boyer College of Temple University is
the school I attended in the Jazz Studies program with
my performance instrument Chromatic Harmonica.

I was a student of Robert Bonfiglio's and had studied for
several years with jazz teachers that were not harmonica players.

They waved the technical aspect of the harmonica and my teacher
was a jazz sax player.

Emile Diggs D'Amico