Re: [Harp-L] Cello and harmonica duet - Irish traditional music

[Burke Trieschmann <burket@xxxxxxx>]

 Great Track Eugene.  I always enjoy hearing your playing.  Coming off a long string St. Paddy's day gig and sessions, I feel like you can never have enough traditional toonage :)

We occasionally have a cello show up at our San Francisco Irish sessions and its a nice change and balance to the fiddles, flutes and whistles.  It also frees up more options for the guitar player.

Are you playing one of you "Irish" tuned CX 12's.  The tune clearly calls for a D chromatic, but I notice you are using the slide for some nice ornaments.

I'd be curious what setup you used for recording together (I'm assuming it was in real time), from such a distance without any latency issues.  This sort opens up all sorts of options for recording collaborations and music production.


Cheers
Burke T. 


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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:40:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
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Nice! Especially considering that this was a transatlantic collaboration. Nice 
tone and articulation on harmonica, Eugene!

Cello has been making inroads in Celtic music in recent years. For instance, 
Natalie Haas' adaptation of chopping and other rhythm techniques to cello, 
largely in her duo with Scottish Fiddler Alasdair Fraser, has tuned a lot of 
heads. Meanwhile, cello classes at fiddle camps have mushroomed in size. Now if 
only we could duplicate that with harmonica!


Winslow

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 From: Eugene Ryan <ryan.eugene@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 11:30 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Cello and harmonica duet - Irish traditional music
 
I just finished recording a video of The Kerfunken (a traditional Irish
jig) on chromatic harmonica with cellist Liz Davis Maxfield - two
non-traditional instruments playing traditional Irish music!ï I really like
this combination of instruments - it was especially fun considering that we
live on different continents.ï  :)

As well as being a first-rate player, Liz Davis Maxfield is a real pioneer
in adapting Irish music for the cello and playing the music in an authentic
way; she literally wrote the book the subject.

Anyway, here is the video - I hope you enjoy it:
http://youtu.be/AqgQuXtej2M

Eugene