Re: [Harp-L] Classical Sub-30

[Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

With you here David. Didn't this particular track get some discussion some
months back? and didn't we all say pretty much the same thing?

On 16 November 2012 14:55, David Fairweather <dmf273@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You guys are less forgiving than I am!  Obviously classical music was never
> meant to be played on a diatonic harmonica.   And if it was played on a
> diatonic harmonica with each note perfectly in tune, then it wouldn't sound
> much like a diatonic harmonica would it?  I like the slightly bluesy effect
> that the diatonic adds to the piece.  But I'm no purist in this regard.  I
> look at it as a pleasantly amusing novelty item.  And I still think that if
> this same tune was attempted with valved bends or overblows it would be
> even more off base but not in a pleasant way.
>



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