Re: [Harp-L] Re: Sad News Cham-Ber Huang

[philharpn@xxxxxxx]

I never really "met'  him but I saw him at several SPAH seminars demonstrate how to play songs using three stacked diatonics, changing harps when the chord vamping required a different chord. And his talks about chromatic playing various techniques. 


HE also invented the chordomonica (I and II( -- which incorporates the same idea into one harmonica.



He also used to joke about his name: "Oooops I played the Huang (wrong) harmonica!" Extremely talented fellow yet approachable and modest about his fame in the classical world. 


I loved his Silvertone harps. It was my first full set - which I still have. 


Later, he came out with his Jazz Harps, equal temperament with the 5 draw tuned up a half-step,  Compare  country tuned (

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCFzBmTP6QA>


Here is a video from NAAM 2005 where he explains his personal chromatic harmonica. A commercial version  is still prized today and Hohner still sells reeds/reedplates for it. 


<http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/cham-ber-huang>


(You could write a treatise about Cham-Ber and  to my regret I never got around to doing that when I was helping to put out American Harmonica Newsmagazine.) 


Maybe somebody could compile a retrospective about him for the SPAH magazine.


Phil




-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Loomis <miltloomis@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 11:18 am
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Sad News Cham-Ber Huang


Sorry to hear this. I have a set of Huang Silvertones that I love, and a couple 
of other Huang models, including a carousel of tremolos. As good as any for the 
money! I never met him but had several e-mail exchanges with him and he was 
always friendly, courteous and accommodating. Great player, too. RIP, Cham-ber 
Huang.

Bob Loomis
Concord CA
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 Rob Paparozzi wrote:
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 >
 received from John Savas, of the Long Island Harmonica Club,
 the sad news that harmonica great Cham-Ber Huang passed away
 on January 10 after a long fight with Alzheimerâs.
  
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