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From: "Martin Dunstan"
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:15:57 +11:00
Subject: Re: harp-l-digest V3 #293

"Samuel J. Gravina" wrote (21 Jan 1998):
> Sonny Terry did play upside down. Kim Fields, the author of the
> excellent "Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy Breathers" also plays upside
> down. I asked him why he gave an answer that had something to do with
> being left handed.

Australian harp legend Chris Wilson also plays upside down. I asked
him "how come?" at a gig recently, and his only response was that he
was basically self taught, and therefore had no-one to teach him
"better". I reckon he couldn't get much better anyway!

Perhaps it's the rest of us who are "wrong"!

No jokes about Aussies doing everything upside down will be
tolerated! (In which case, I'll refrain from any "Stevie Wonder
- -type" jokes about Sonny Terry not knowing which way he was
holding his harp).


Regards,
Martin Dunstan
Warrnambool, AUSTRALIA
dunsta~fag.agvic.gov.au