RE: Subject: RE: [Harp-L] re: was Adler now hands

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

> ....well, I'm about as much of an amateur as one can get, Robert,  usually
> playing alone with no accompaniment or to CD's or the  Radio and I too have
> found myself many times taking one hand off the  instrument and 
> unconsciously
> directing the music.  It's usually when  I'm quite caught up in the 
> emotions of
> the song.  I would never  have admitted this 'cept for your post.  Now I 
> don't
> feel quite so much of  an oddity :)
> Thanks!
> Elizabeth

I'm glad this isn't just me.  If I'm playing fast Irish or Scottish tunes on 
my double-sided Echo tremolo (something that happens only a few times in a 
long session but which I wouldn't do without), my left hand flaps around on 
top of the big harp quite pointlessly and involuntarily.  I'm sort of (only 
sort of) beating out the rhythm of the tune.   I've occasionally been asked 
by non-harmonica players if I'm doing something essential to getting the 
right notes - I think they look at those drilled holes in the covers and 
wonder if I'm playing them like an ocarina or something.  I have no idea why 
I do it - it seems to help with keeping me in the rhythm of the tune.  
Weird.

Steve

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