Re: [Harp-L] Blues Birdhead

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ron;
         The overblow is a 6 hole overblow, not 4. It occurs in the second chorus, that is, the second 12-bar progression. It is in bar 6, just after the 3rd beat ('3 and').
         The piece is in 1st position, and the key is F#, though probably recorded on a G, and some speed lost somewhere. Low F# harps weren't made back in 1929 as far as I know, and it's pitched too low for an F# above the standard F.
        I worked this tune out note for note nearly forty years ago and can still come pretty close to replicating it, so you better believe all of the above!
RD
          

>>> <captron100@xxxxxxx> 25/06/2008 1:43 >>>

 I had a lot of trouble trying to listen to Mean Low Blues from the Amazon.com link that Rick sent.  
Finally i discovered that if I scrolled down to the song list, i could click the arrow to the left 
of the song title, to enable me to hear it.  It sounds to me like this version is in first position
using an F harp, but it is slow and therefore flat.
  Then harmoniman@comcast sent this link:
 http://www.authentichistory.com/1930s/music/1929-Mean_Low_Blues.html , which is the full song. This
seems to be in F# in first position, except that there is a low note that isn't on my F# harp (about 
9/10th of the way thru the song).  
  Whatever, this song is a workout in both first or second position, entailing lots of
opportunities to use OB's.  Fun stuff that could keep you occupied for days, if not years!  It also
has a couple of examples of that growl which we've talked about before on harp-L (about 6/10th of 
the way thru) but at that time I didn't have the song to listen to, so i had little idea of what 
the posters were talking about. But that growl appears to be on a the OB'd 4 blow. I'm gonna save 
this link.  If anyone can shed light on what's going on in this song, i would be very interested.
 This was great.  Thanks for sending that link.
ron
 


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