Re: [Harp-L] Bach & Ballad from Koei Tanaka on the SUB30 UltraBend

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 11, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Steve Shaw wrote:

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>> Many of you will know Japanese harmonica ace Koei Tanaka from his stellar
>> performance at the Sacramento SPAH festival. In addition to his jazz
>> chromatic and overblow diatonic skills, he's now playing the new Suzuki
>> UltraBend to a very high level. Check out these two beautiful videos:
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>> THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeNexBQ7u3k
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>> BACH: AIR ON A G STRING
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du33p0jOsY4
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>> Enjoy!
> Just me and my personal sense of taste, I suppose, but, though I admire the guy's superb tone and technique, I found that the Bach made excruciating listening.All that swooping and bending, often taking what seemed to be an interminable time to actually reach the pitch of the note, etc... Yikes!  :-( 		 	   		  
So...the wife was making breakfast as I played these clips. She asked:  "Whose killing a cat?". Ok, so what does that tell me? 
smokey joe