Re: [Harp-L] Old Time Harmonica

[burket@xxxxxxx]

 Great tracks Bart~!  

I was recently listening to Mark Graham's "Southern Old Time Harmonica" (which I really enjoy and hadn't listened to in a quite a while) before checking out your your tube tracks.  Really fun and inspiring performance.  

I like Sandy Boys a lot and it reminds me of a tune called "Clinch Mountain Backstep" (mostly the A section).  I had to learn it on banjo recently backing up a fiddler, and now your cross harp version has me wanting to work it out on harp too.

Not sure which of those really expensive harmonicas you were using (the Huang Silvertone or the Lee Oskar in D) sound better, but I'll have to revisit and decide :)  

Do you ever play your harp racked up while you are frailing banjo at the same time?  I think getting the banjo and harmonica parts of the brain to cooperate is always an adventure.  

Thanks for sharing these.

Burke T.


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Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 10:16:24 +1000
From: Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Old Time Harmonica
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That's really nice OT playing, Bart. It's solid and functional with
no showing off, the way that music is supposed to be.
It's common for fiddle tunes on harmonica to be overly busy,
and sound too clever, and a lot off hard work.
This sounds easy and fun (not meaning to say it's easy!)
Thanks for that,
RD 


>>> "Bart van Strien" <knuppel@xxxxxxxxx> 28/05/12 6:13 PM >>>
Hi, I'm Bart and a newbie to Harp-L. I play banjo and on
occasion hca with the Blue Grass Boogiemen from the
Netherlands. I expect it will be nice to talk to & hear
from other harmonica-enthousiasts. And maybe even some
players that are into old-time or bluegrass as well.

I recently uploaded 2 old-time tunes on Youtube. It would
be really great to get some feedback or reactions (even
negative ;-)) from you guys. Ye know, so that I don't get
the feeling I'm alone in the dark :-) Here's the links if
you're interested:

Harmonica - Give The Fiddler A Dram:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dkjo36WQ
Harmonica - Sandy Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dOzK8ey8E8

Hope you like em, cheers!
Bart van Strien