From: Richard_Weintrag~abylon.montreal.qc.ca (Richard Weintrager) Date: 06 Feb 1998 17:58:19 GMT Subject: (Discrete) Lee Oskar Email Address?
(Discrete) Lee Oskar Email Address?
Please, someone help me out with this.
Please read the following and assess whether to get me Lee's address/contact.
Please feel free to send me the info/response to this off-post if you wish.
I need to get the EXACT NOTATION of each of the reeds on his Harmonic-minor harps. For both transcription-purposes (personally) and for archival/research work (occupationally) where it regards a manuscript I'm working on on the presense and influenece of "eastern" modal and incremental tunings and instruments and techniques and styles on the American musical phenomenon. His is the first mass-produced, high-quality, commercially-available "Harmonic-minor" harmonicas in the United States (that I'm aware of, anyways) that incorporate these systems I'm writing about into their structure and layout.
Along with the pure notational information I would like to interview Lee on the subject of his tunings and layouts of these harps for the manuscript; but would like to have the notations to look at first so that I can make what connexions I may with the systems and modes I'm relating to in the book; thereby have the necessary and more appropriate and elicitous questions to ask Lee about his motivation and reasoning behind the particular structures and choice-of-notes on his line of harps, as well.
I am attending his seminar in September in Vancouver and can meet him then, will do so, personally, but would like to make contact/explorations first.
Feel free to forward this post to Lee, if you can, if you wish, so he can decide if my concerns warrant an enquiry/interaction to & with me. I have been unable to get his address through Tombo, though took patient and great pains at explaining my reasons for needing it. The woman I spoke to was extremely helpful and friendly but didn't really know what I was talking about and was unable or unwilling to get me a contact address.
I have tried to locate his contact-point in other ways as well, but to no avail! Any help will be GREATLY APPRECIATED. I'm sure that someone like Winslow's got a contact for Lee.
Please feel free to send me the info/response to this off-post if you wish.
