Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Man with what harmonica? Video

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

You're very welcome, Arnold. Although I don't see that it's 'confusion'  
since Smokey (Joe Leone) did say it was a C chromatic early on and that one 
can  get the riff on a C. I'm personally (as he is) a huge believer in playing 
 different-keyed chromatics for situations where they're called for 
(neither of  us are 'purists') since why else are they made, and why not use the 
many tools  available? But I believe De Gemini played a C chromatic 
specifically. 
 
 
I also think someone posted the De Gemini interview once before here--might 
 have been Smokey himself (who, incidentally is a real-life cousin  of 
Sergio Leone--a wee bit of film and harmonica lore most people might not  know. 
I've seen black and white photos of a very young Smokey and siblings  with 
his older cousin Sergio.)
 
 
Anyway, I digress. I DO remember this or a similar clip but with an English 
 translator explaining just how the riff was played. The overall discussion 
 'could' have taken place on Slidemeister, not here--now that I think about 
it.  Unsure. But I've personally heard Smokey play it and he's dead-on 
accurate. Back  then his favourite go-to chromatic was a 
G so I'm not 100% sure if that's  what he was using? Naturally, this is a 
favourite topic/attempt to play riff  among chromatic players here.
 
 
 
I'm a big fan of the movie too, but am mostly affected by the  very moving 
aspect of the young boy being forced to balance his older  brother on his 
shoulders. His brother makes the decision to kick him away, in  effect hanging 
himself--to spare his brother the onus of causing his own  sibling's life. 
That stuck with me more than any other aspect of the movie--as  good as the 
rest of it was, and I supported and wanted the  boy/man's single-minded 
revenge on 'Frank' throughout the rest of the film.  That's what the harmonica 
conveys to me here...the immense sadness, rage and  implacability of his 
hunting down his brother's killer.
 
 
Ergo those notes give me chills every time. Morricone knew what he was  
doing.
 
Elizabeth
 
"Message: 8
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:50:38 +0100
From: Arnold  Cazemier <a.cazemier@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Man  with what harmonica? Video
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks,  Elizabeth!


In this vid Franco is using a C chromatic.
The notes  are F Dd E F, tabbed 6B< 5B< 6B 6B<
The key is Bb  minor.

Maybe that's what the confusion 's about? Guiseppe?  :)


Arnold




Op Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:28:47 -0500 (EST)  schreef EGS1217@xxxxxxx:

>Pretty much the definitive response from the  original guy: Franco de  
>Gemini:
>
>http://youmedia.fanpage.it/video/ab/UeuSx-SwOOp7dnGF



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