From: danpere~uno.com (DANIEL T PEREZ) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:44:12 EST Subject: Re: harp-l-digest V3 #287
Hello Barry, I saw your advertisement for your CBH 2016, I would like to post a bid of $225.00. Dan
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 21:44:36 -0600 (CST) owner-harp-l-dige~oo.garply.com writes: > >harp-l-digest Monday, 19 January 1998 Volume 03 : >Number 287 > >Subjects in this issue are: > >RE: Kazoo or something (Rich Lyons ) >RE: Fwd: The Blues Recital/covers (Mike Curtis ) >CBH 2016 Now at Auction ("Barry B. Bean" ) >Where can you get replacement windsavers? (FlyByJ1 ) >Reply to: Amazing Grace (... and tips for beginners) (WIldcard >) >RE: ABA (Ken.Hinderan~llan.com) >Re: ABA? (Robert V enables <106500.6~omputerize.com>) >nasal harp playing (WIldcard ) >Re: Disherison and harp (Robert V enables <106500.6~omputerize.com>) >Re: Modified Solo Tuned CA Diatonic (Douglas Tater >) >Re: Chord Mica (Ken.Hinderan~llan.com) >re: whammed jammer (tha~th.it) >Re: Kazoo or something (Douglas Tater >) >Re: Where can you get replacement windsavers? (Joe Ferguson >) >Re: Peg Leg Sam info? (Pat Missin ) >I've got a hohner 64 chromonica (professional model) chromatic harp >that needs help (Mark ) >Re: Little Wind is not Little Walter (Ken Ficara ) >Magic Dick and whammed Jammer (WIldcard ) >RE: Amazing Grace (was Xerox machines) (Ken Ficara ) >Re: Chord Mica (BluesGeek / able.com) >Junior Wells/Arrested Development (Ken Ficara ) >"His Best" vs. "The Essential..." >(DAVID_BARNES / HP-MountainView-om1.om.hp.com) >CX-12 tenor-tuned vs. Hering >(DAVID_BARNES / HP-MountainView-om1.om.hp.com) >Re: Where can you get replacement windsavers? ("Adam T. Valleau" >) > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >From: Rich Lyons >Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 17:08:13 >Subject: RE: Kazoo or something > >At 10:39 AM 1/19/98 -0600, you wrote: >>I believe the technical term is >>"flatulist," > >>Anyone ever try this with a harmonica? Now that would >>keep people from grabbing your harps at the gigs... > >Sure wouldn't call it a "mouth harp" anymore... > >I *do* know a guy who plays harmonica through his nose... Lloyd >Squires... >Wouldn't borrow his harp either... > > >Rev. Rich Lyons >rev_rich / internetwork.net > >------------------------------ > >From: Mike Curtis >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:48:24 -0800 (PST) >Subject: RE: Fwd: The Blues Recital/covers > >On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Welter, Ted wrote: > >> There are covers and there are covers. Ry Cooder has made a >>career out of reviving old songs, both hits and obscurities, and >making >>them his own. If I could do with my harmonica what Mr. Cooder does >with >>his guitar (and his voice, and those wonderful musicians he always >seems >>to attract to his recordings), I'd be content. > >Exactly my point. > >Even though they're covers, you can ALWAYS tell it's Ry Cooder. Now >I'd >pay to hear him do Mustang Sally! > > > -- IronMan Mike Curtis >My CD "Doin' It All Myself" available in Tower, Blockbuster, Camelot, >PX > > >------------------------------ > >From: "Barry B. Bean" >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 98 15:09:07 -0600 >Subject: CBH 2016 Now at Auction > >I've decided to sell my CBH at auction. go to: >http://komodo.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4608799 > >for the listing. > >BBB >- - >B.B. Bean - Have horn, will travel bbbean / beancotton.com >Peach Orchard, MO http://www.beancotton.com/bbbean.shtml > > >------------------------------ > >From: FlyByJ1 >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:17:29 EST >Subject: Where can you get replacement windsavers? > >Can anyone tell me where to order replacement windsavers? I've >experimented >with different materials, but none seem to work as well as the factory >originals. I'm restoring an old Chrometta to playable condition. But >its >missing most of its valves. > >Thanks for your help! > >- -Jim Miller > >------------------------------ > >From: WLifford >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:08:08 EST >Subject: Reply to: Amazing Grace (... and tips for beginners) > >In a message dated 1/19/98 14:34:44, you wrote: > ><>Dickenson's poetry can be sung to Amazing Grace.>> > >Most of Emily Dickenson's poems can also, by the way, be sung quite >well to >the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". Mrs. Benson, my 11th grade >English >teacher demonstrated this and was a big sucess. Despite our >suggestions to >take the act out to Vegas and stop giving us essays and themes to >write, she >continued to teach English and is now (I think) over 325 years old, >and still >teaching. > >- --Bill >Montgomery, AL > > >------------------------------ > >From: Ken.Hildebrand / alcan.com >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 15:28:27 -0500 (EST) >Subject: RE: A440 > >- --Boundary_(ID_WwEBFRk5oSrOOXOefd2ulg) >Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN > >Speaking of 440 etc... > >I dusted off my old Boss tuning meter the other day when I was home >with a bum >knee >and thought I would try tuning up an old Lee Oskar E-flat harp (number >9 blow >was flat)--too many >"Fishin Blues" played through it !! > >But I seem to recall from the paper that comes with the LO harps that >said >these harps are >tuned to 441plus (is that 441 1/2 ?). > >Anyhow, I was a little disappointed because my meter only has settings >for 440 >442 and 443, >So I proceeded anyhow using 440. > >But just a waste of time anyhow since the reed was definitely cracked. > >Oh well... > >Happy Harpoonin !! >Ken > >- --Boundary_(ID_WwEBFRk5oSrOOXOefd2ulg)-- > >------------------------------ > >From: Robert Venables <106500.642 / compuserve.com> >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:10:28 -0500 >Subject: Re: A440? > >>>> Mike Curtis wrote > Lee Oskar harmonicas come tuned slightly sharp. Also, >the notes are not perfectly "equal tuned" on diatonics, except the >Golden> >Melody. Most used "just tuning" or similar, to produce smoother >sounding> >chords while sacrificing a little melodically. > >>>>> > I thought LO's were equal tuned. Am I wrong? (again!) > Rob V > >------------------------------ > >From: WLifford >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:04:51 EST >Subject: nasal harp playing > >In a message dated 1/19/98 14:48:39, you wrote: > ><>Squires... >Wouldn't borrow his harp either...>> > >I have done this on occasion, to prevent the very drunk slob who's >accosting >me from grabbing a harp and trying to play it. It's amazing how often >people >want to play through your harps! But not after they see you play a >quick tune >through your nose.... > >Kind of gross, but it does work very effectively. > >Bill >Montgomery, AL > >------------------------------ > >From: Robert Venables <106500.642 / compuserve.com> >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:10:30 -0500 >Subject: Re: Didgeridoo and harp > > Seeing this topic brings back a party I played a couple of years >ago. >When a didg player stepped up there were a few nervous glances >exchanged > >between the band, but he was set up with a mike on the floor and >started >this wonderful pulse (in B, I think). The vocalist came in with ''Papa >wa>s >a rolling stone'' over the top. It was a magical rendition. Everyone >(sax>, >keys, 2 guitars, harp) seemed to to play exactly what was needed. We >dropped out one by one ,just leaving the didg to finish. He only >paused h>is >circular breathing once to take a drink (it was my beer, but what the >heck). > > > When it ended there was a stunned silence, followed by wild >applause. >Some experience. People who were there still talk about it! > > off to find a drainpipe > Rob V. > >------------------------------ > >From: Douglas Tate >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:46:15 +0000 >Subject: Re: Modified Solo Tuned C Diatonics > >Hi Phil > >At 13:01 19/01/98 EST, you wrote: >>I like Winslow's modification on a solo tuned C diatonic > >Yup >You may remember ... this was one of the three methods I described for >learning scales the other day.... I got it from my old friend Ken >Howells > (Ken was a guy who played with the Morton Fraser group in the UK... >BUT... >if you were talking music with him at home, he had a vast array of >instruments of all types, wood, string, brass, keyboard , guitars >etc.... >you would talk tunes and he would pick up the nearest thing wherever >he >happened to be and launch int an improvisation on the durn thing.... >there was a REAL musician.... and his aim.... to make music, it's >theory >and practicalities accessable to the beginner.... he transmitted >pure >verve with his teaching (if you could call what he did teaching !!!) > >Makes sense to use the same system on a diatonic. > >Douglas > >------------------------------ > >From: Ken.Hildebrand / alcan.com >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 15:19:51 -0500 (EST) >Subject: Re: Chord Mic > >- --Boundary_(ID_7wP9PEM/xhVDQnwNbXnHoQ) >Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN > >Hi Jonathon ! > >I think most chord players use a microphone that is attached somehow >to the >side of the throat; maybe that's why chord players like to where >turtle necks. >I'm not sure what kind/brand of mic they use though. > >Ken Hildebrand > >- --Boundary_(ID_7wP9PEM/xhVDQnwNbXnHoQ)-- > >------------------------------ > >From: trank / ntt.it >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:42:43 +0100 >Subject: re: whammer jammer > >At 21.38 18/01/98 -0500, you wrote: >>I've heard Nine Below Zero do an instrumental with many of the >"Harpin'" >>riffs, too, on an album from the early 80's. > >"Swing Job" - from Nine Below Zero 'Live at the Marquee', 1980. >Harp: Mark Feltham > >Ciao, >Paolo > > >------------------------------ > >From: Douglas Tate >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:27:05 +0000 >Subject: Re: Kazoo or something > >Sorry Mike... > >you said: >>>He even played it before the crowned heads of Europe. (Le >peto......> >>I'm afraid to ask - but I'm even more curious..... >> > >I failed to answer... but I see it has been more than capably done by >others. One thing is certain.... He may have used pucker, but he >sure >as hell didn't tongue block. > >Actually...I suppose he might well have used the title of your CD as >his >motto well before you were born!!! > >:) >BTW... if you go to Mike Polesky's party....Jan 30th, bring a CD and i >will >buy it. > >Douglas t > > > > > >------------------------------ > >From: Joe Ferguson >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:49:47 -0500 >Subject: Re: Where can you get replacement windsavers? > >FlyByJ1 wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me where to order replacement >> windsavers? I've experimented >> with different materials, but none seem to work >> as well as the factory >> originals. I'm restoring an old Chrometta to >> playable condition. But its >> missing most of its valves. >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> -Jim Miller > >Customer Service Department Hohner, Inc. 10223 >Sycamore Drive > Ashland, VA 23005 > (804) 550-2700 >Joe > > Joe's Virtual Music Shop > http://www.joesvirtual.com > > > >------------------------------ > >From: Pat Missin >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:07:48 >Subject: Re: Peg Leg Sam info? > >Indiana wote: >> >>Does anyone know if the Trix label is >>available in the USA? > >I thought Trix was an American label (but I could be wrong). The >"Medicine >Show Man" CD (Trix CD 3302) was recently listed in the Red Lick >catalog, >but I've just checked the current catalog and they don't seem to have >any >Trix CDs in stock at the moment. Sam also played harp on a Trix CD by >guitarist Henry Johnson (Johnson having palyed guitar on Sam's album). > >Peg Leg Sam also did an album with Louisiana Red, called "Joshua" (not >as >good as "Medicine Show Man", IMO) - not sure, but I think it was on >the >Tomato label (Dutch, if I am not mistaken). I'll try and find some >more >details if anyone is interested. Sam (really name Arthur jackson) was >an >amazing blues player, as well as a great storyteller. If you are into >trad >blues harp, you shouldn't pass up any chance to hear him. > > -- Pat. > > > >------------------------------ > >From: Mark >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:04:10 +1000 >Subject: I've got a hohner 64 chromonica (professional model) >chromatic harp that needs help > >Hi all, My chromatic harp has a couple of blown reeds. i just >purschased it a 4 months ago - is it covered by warranty?? if so >where >do i send it or who do I call. If not where can I send it to be fixed > >and how much is it going to cost me? > >- -mark > >------------------------------ > >From: Ken Ficara >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:41:09 -0500 >Subject: Re: Little Wind is not Little Walter > >one also presumes these were strictly outdoor engagements... > >At 10:18 -0600 1/19/98, Will Jennings wrote: >>Le Petomaine played 'music' out of his ass. >>He'd suffered a swimming accident in his youth which left him with a >>distended colon. He learned to take on air, store it, and using >controlled >>'breathing' and a sphincter able to respond to his 'ear', was able to >play >>many popular tunes of the day. He also extinguished candles from a >>distance of 5 meters. He outdrew Sarah Bernhardt. >> >>One presumes he charted his own solos, but improved the ocassional >>SBD. >> >>- -wjj >> >> >>------------------------------ > > >=====================================================================>Ken Ficara ficara / acm.org > >"I prefer the happiness of [New York City's] unorganized >imperfection." > > --Fiorello LaGuardia > >For more quotes, see: http://www.panix.com/~ficara/quotes/quotes.cgi > > > >------------------------------ > >From: WLifford >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:25:51 EST >Subject: Magic Dick and Whammer Jammer > >hello all, > >My take on it is this: since Magic Dick "wrote" or arranged the >original >tune, I guess he is entitled to do it note for note when he plays it >live. >I'm sure that that's the tune that will always haunt him, meaning the >tune >where, no matter what he plays, and how well, the audience will always >want >Whammer Jammer and not be satisfied until they hear it. It's really a >shame, >because I really love "Full Court Press", the instrumental on the >first >Bluestime album, and I'd really prefer to hear/see him do that one >instead. >(it's neat... he changes from Bb standard diatonic to chromatic, to Bb >of his >"big band" tuning, to Bb of his "blues band" tuning... though I can't >remember >exactly in which order. I asked him in 1995 or 1996 after a show he >did). >I must also say that Bluestime's other guitarist, Jerry Miller, is >absolutely >KILLER. His rhythm playing is superb and his one solo spanked Jay >Geils >silly! > >I've noticed the "play the jukebox" syndrome when I saw Clapton's >Blues Tour. >Despite ample warning that this was not going to be a "play the old >favorites" >tour, audience members were quite disappointed (and overly verbal >about it to >the point of being low-class) that he didn't play Layla or the other >fav's. > >The canadian band Barenaked Ladies has a song called "Box Set" that >very >cutely describes the same phenomenon... can't remember the words >exactly, but >it's a snappy tune. > >Bill >Montgomery, AL > >------------------------------ > >From: Ken Ficara >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:40:44 -0500 >Subject: RE: Amazing Grace (was Xerox machines) > >At 9:51 -0600 1/19/98, Welter, Ted wrote: >>...and you can do all of Emily Dickenson's poetry to the tune of the >>Gilligan's Island theme song. Might be useful for college >coffeehouse >>literary crowd... > >Actually, there's something much more amusing if you're hanging out >with a >bunch of drunk literary-minded blues fans. Shakespeare, you see, wrote >mostly in iambic pentameter, which just happens to fit the standard >blues >line very well, and, well, you can imagine the rest. Suffice it to say >that >harmonica fills can improve the average Shakespeare soliloquy, but >only if >you've had too much to drink to walk reliably. > >:) >ken > > > >=====================================================================>Ken Ficara ficara / acm.org > >"I prefer the happiness of [New York City's] unorganized >imperfection." > > --Fiorello LaGuardia > >For more quotes, see: http://www.panix.com/~ficara/quotes/quotes.cgi > > > >------------------------------ > >From: BluesGeek / aol.com >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:56:48 -0500 (EST) >Subject: Re: Chord Mic > >George, > >Thanks for the great info. I was thinking that the set up would be >useful to >players and harp vocalists, who could mount any mic, including a >wireless to >the chest plate for mobility. I understand that the mic is >discontinued, but >do you know if the chest plates are available? > >Thank you. > >- -dave > >George Miklas wrote: > >The mic is the now obsolete Shure 300, or 315 ribbon microphone. The > >bodies of two mics are disected, then reconstructed and mounted on a >WW2 > >Army Air Force chest microphone plate. There is no difference in >frequency > >response between the 300 and 315, however in their stand mounting > >applications, the 300 has vibration isolator, whereas the 315 has an > >optional on/off switch. The freq. response is 300-20,000. Shure made >one > >more ribbon microphone, and it was the 330, and its freq. response was > >20-20,000. The internal design was essentially the same, but the body >was > >a little different and certainly was heavier. Like the 300, it too >was > >built with a vibration isolator for the stand application. For many >years, > >Johnny Carson used the 330, which was mounted to a desk stand and was > >placed on his prop. Many harmonica players use the 330 to remake into > >chest mic, however, they remain heavy. > > > >The Shure corp. has obsoleted this line of mics about 15 years ago. >To > >find one would be like finding a dinosaur. > > > >The closest online photo would be in Danny Wilson's photo of the > >harmonicats in Omaha NE. > > > >George and Jodi Miklas > >email: harmonicat / pathway.net > >personal homepage: http://www.angelfire.com/pa/harmonicat/index.html > >George Junior Republic homepage: >http://www3.pgh.net/~gjrinpa/frame.htm > >------------------------------ > >From: Ken Ficara >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 20:46:39 -0500 >Subject: Junior Wells/Arrested Development > >On the back of 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 2 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF..., >Arrested >Development says that "Mama's Always Onstage" contains a sample from >"Snatch It Back and Hold It." But I don't think it does. It sounds to >me >like they sampled the opening riff from "We're Ready" on side two of >the >album. Has anyone else noticed this or am I just crazy? > >Ken > >=====================================================================>Ken Ficara ficara / acm.org > >"I prefer the happiness of [New York City's] unorganized >imperfection." > > --Fiorello LaGuardia > >For more quotes, see: http://www.panix.com/~ficara/quotes/quotes.cgi > > > >------------------------------ > >From: DAVID_BARNES / HP-MountainView-om1.om.hp.com >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 98 18:00:28 -0800 >Subject: "His Best" vs. "The Essential..." > >I'm going to get a few "best of" compilations from Little Walter and >Sonny >Boy II. Each artist has a 2-CD set called "The Essential _____" as >well as >a recent Chess CD called "_____ -- His Best". The former has twice >the >songs and costs twice the latter. I really like Sonny Boy and Little >Walter, but do these "His Best" compilations give me most of their >really >good stuff? Or is the additional material on the "Essential _____" >CDs >worth the extra money? > >Subjective recommendations welcome... > >- - Dave > > >------------------------------ > >From: DAVID_BARNES / HP-MountainView-om1.om.hp.com >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 98 18:16:05 -0800 >Subject: CX-12 tenor-tuned vs. Hering > >Sorry to post, but I can't seem to get the archives to search for "CX" > >I'm probably going to get a tenor-tuned 3-octave (not comfortable with >a >4-octave beast). Anybody have any experience with the Hohner CX-12 >tenor-tuned chro vs. the Hering tenor-tuned 501/48? Though I'm happy >with >my Hering standard C, tenor-tuned instruments might compare >differently. >And if the CX-12 is that much better, maybe it's time to "treat" >myself. >Anyway, how do they compare? Is the CX-12 worth twice as much as the >Hering? > >Also, if one were buying a CX-12, any thoughts on the silver/gold vs. >standard black model? Is the silver/gold that much better, as >claimed? > >- - Dave "Counting Chros" Barnes > > >------------------------------ > >From: "Adam T. Valleau" >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 21:22:16 -0800 >Subject: Re: Where can you get replacement windsavers? > >> FlyByJ1 originally wrote: >> >> > Can anyone tell me where to order replacement >> > windsavers? I've experimented >> > with different materials, but none seem to work >> > as well as the factory >> > originals. I'm restoring an old Chrometta to >> > playable condition. But its >> > missing most of its valves. >> > >> > Thanks for your help! >> > >> > -Jim Miller >> > >And Joe Ferguson replied: >> Customer Service Department Hohner, Inc. 10223 >> Sycamore Drive >> Ashland, VA 23005 >> (804) 550-2700 > >======================================================================>Let me also suggest that, if possible, you telephone Hohner at the >above >number. I spoke with a representative who was very friendly and who >understood what I was looking for. I asked for enough valves >(windsavers) to re-valve 3 Koch/Slide Harps. The cost was $18 and I >received three cardboard Hot Metal boxes chocked full of valves of >various lengths. There were enough valves here to re-do NINE Slide >Harps, easily! I think it was worth the $18, because a I got a really >good supply. You probably will want to specify that you're re-valving >a >Chrometta. However, I re-valved an old red Chrometta 12 using the >valves I just described. They worked fine. The only type of valves >that were not in the sets I ordered are the extra long, >"double-tipped" >valves used on the lowest two or three holes of the Hohner 280 >Chromonica (and perhaps the other 16 holed chromatics). When I need >to >replace these, I'll have to order 'em from Hohner. > > >BTW, as you all on Harp-l may notice in this post, my e-mail address >has >changed (again). I'm sorry for the inconvenience such switching may >cause, but I've had numerous difficulties with MSN's service here in >the >Baltimore area. So, I've switched back to NetCom. NetCom might not >have quite as many features as big ol' MSN, but its service was always >reliable for me! > >Anyway, the new address is somewhat similar to the old MSN e-mail >address (which is still active at this time but is not subscribed to >Harp-l) at: harpnman / ix.netcom.com > >If you've saved my address, please note the change, and thanks! > >- -- > >Regards, > >Adam T. Valleau, CIH >(Yer Harpoon Man) >Baltimore, MD > >Like to know about work place safety & health? >(Er.. ever wonder what Adam REALLY does all day long??...) > >Visit us at our website: http://www.dllr.state.md.us/labor/mosh.html > >------------------------------ > >End of harp-l-digest V3 #287 >**************************** > >