Re: [Harp-L] Why you should learn chromatic







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From: Chuck Dean <cadean329@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 10:43:42 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Why you should learn chromatic

Possible;yes Practical;not me. Too much mechanical gymnastics
I like having 2 10 holers 1/2 step apart
Gene Gene the dancin machine (the unknown harp player)


Chuck
"It's the early bird that catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the
cheese"

>"In fairness to the diatonic, the subject could just as well have been, Why
you should learn >all 12 positions :) Whether the mechanism is a button or
overblow, in either case all twelve >scales must be grappled with one way or
another!"

OK, I have to ask. I have seen Howard Levy live a few times back in Chicago
and I have seen Jason Ricci on You Tube.

Is it really possible to bend, blow, draw, over blow, and over draw, the
entire chromatic scale in all 12 keys on one diatonic harp?


      


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