Re: [Harp-L] Re: Air Harmonica

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

This is true, many times the band is too loud and I can't actually  
hear WHAT I'm playing, so I have to rely on knowing where the notes  
are. I must be ok, because the few times when the sound DOES get  
through to me, the notes are correct. I don't have that problem with  
sax or clarinet because it's all in the fingers.
Wizard (Winslow) had brought up a similar subject 5 months ago when  
talking about diatonic ACCORDION. It appears that since the set up is  
the same as a Marine Band and there is a DIFFERENT note on the push/ 
pull of the bellows (per button), one finds that they are actually  
breathing in and out along with the notes. I noticed that this  
DOESN't happen (with me, at least) when playing a 120 bass.

smo-joe


On Mar 2, 2007, at 10:57 AM, jazmaan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> After some more experimentation I find that I can play a kind of  
> crude "air harmonica".   I think
> my deficiencies compared to "air saxophone" stem from the fact that  
> when I play real harmonica,  I
> devote no conscious thought to the number of the hole I'm playing  
> or the name of the note.
> Perhaps I should.
>
> On sax I know how to finger an F# for instance.   But if you hand  
> me a C harp and say play an F#,
> I would have to fumble around a bit while I mentally calculate  
> where that note should be.   And if
> you said "play an F#7 arpeggio starting on the 7th and going down"  
> on a C harp, I would be totally
> befuddled, while on the sax it would be no problem, either with a  
> real sax or an "air sax".
>
> So I imagine that some of the better players out there may indeed  
> be able to play an accurate "air
> harmonica", especially the chrom players.
>
>
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