Re: technique?

["Bob Maglinte" <bbqbob917@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: technique?


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> From: "Michael Carreira"
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> > i heard this hillbilly play the other day and he used
> > this crazy technique:
> >
> > he made his hands air tight and redirected the air
> > into the other end of the harp. so when he was drawing
> > in the low end he could simultaneously get blown notes
> > up high and the inverse. he had really great controll
> > and could play tunes this way and also make some
> > beautiful dissonances.
> >
> > has anyone heard of this? are there any records with
> > this technique? any fomous harpists do this?
>
> I don't know who first discovered this technique, but I witnessed Joe
> Filisko demonstrating it and its applications at SPAH in 1992.
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> Cheers,
>
> Paul

Hi,
The first time I heard anyone using this technique was about 20 years ago on
a CHO rehearsal, and one of the guys was a studio engineer at the time, and
he had a tape of a session by former European harp champion Chris Turner,
and when Pierre Beauregard and I heard, we both thought it was a great
overdub, but the guy who was the engineer said it was no overdub, and we
thought he was pulling our chains. Well, a couple of weeks later, Chris
comes down to a CHO rehearsal, and Pierre asked him about this, and Chris
played this right in front of our unbelieving eyes, and me and Pierre were
totally flipping out over this. BTW, for those who are wondering, the CHO
means the Cambridge Harmonica Orchestra.

Also, Richard Hunter's book, "Jazz Harp," was a helpful eye opener for me
when it first came out in 1979/80, and it is still an excellent book that
truly broke ground. The interview with Toots Thielemans IMO is worth the
price of it alone!

Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA