[Harp-L] harmonica sighting at symphony
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Saw Jeff Tyzik conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Friday morning at Orchestra Hall in Detroit for a pops series featuring the Nat King Cole Songbook as sung by Denzal Sinclaire. The second half of the concert featured some non-Cole standards. Sinclaire also sang the tunes in the second half and played melodica on several tunes wyh the symphony.
I don't think I've seen the melodica played with a symphony orchestra much, if at all. The melodica (trade name of Hohners blown piano keyboard instrument. Sinclaire played the melodica with a windpipe extension holding the melodical in a piano position. My melodicas have a strap allowing the player to hold the instrument in-line (vertically) with the body.
In the video below, the player holds the melodica like Sinclaire did.
Here's a youtube of Bohemian Rhapsody
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWf122wHkw>;
ps
NO. This was NOT PLAYED at the DSO pops concert.
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Helmar Hill on melodica with the Robert Bachner Big Band
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBrP7ibO2k>;
==Phil
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