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Post by minorkey on May 5, 2020 10:30:47 GMT
Been learning this fun little instrument on and off.
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Post by delb0y on May 5, 2020 12:51:50 GMT
I do like the harp. Have a couple myself, but I tend to just use them to blow a few very quiet background chords to add colour to my acoustic songs. I always enjoyed listening to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
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minorkey
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Post by minorkey on May 5, 2020 15:25:52 GMT
I just played The Train with a triplet rhythm, accelerating
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Post by missclarktree on May 6, 2020 18:33:30 GMT
It's something I keep meaning to do - maybe when I retire.
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Post by ocarolan on May 7, 2020 9:25:05 GMT
Could never get the hang of the gob-iron. Go for it larry - sounding good!
Keith
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Post by vikingblues on May 15, 2020 19:12:01 GMT
Tried it once, over a few weeks - and failed very miserably!  You're going well with it Larry.  Mark |
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Post by Akquarius on May 15, 2020 19:47:27 GMT
the harmonica is a fabulous instrument and if you keep a few things in mind (blow angle and so on) then you will have loads of fun with it |
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Post by walkingdecay on May 23, 2020 7:20:49 GMT
Keep her running, Larry.
If you're looking for a good book on harmonica playing that actually helps you progress, I can recommend Harmonica For Dummies and the various online examples that come with it. Unlike all those, "Here are approximate versions of Home Sweet Home and Red River Valley, now play my exact transcription of what Sighted Slim Tomato played on a rusty harp in a different key on Money Goes To White Bloke Records in 1921" books, it's a well thought out course that gives you a thorough grounding in the instrument. Harmonica is more challenging than most think it is and, in common with Keith, I didn't get very far with it for years (heck, if a thoroughgoing musician like him flounders on the thing, it must be a bugger) but I actually got somewhere fast with that book, before my interest in playing music dwindled away to its present nadir.
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Post by walkingdecay on May 23, 2020 11:28:44 GMT
Should have referred to "Keith and Mark" above.
Message to self: "Read the whole thread, you careless old git."
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Post by minorkey on Jul 14, 2020 23:16:21 GMT
Bought myself a Seydel Session Steel (it has steel rather than brass reeds,)
Its a good harp, but I've lost interest in it. Cost me 48 quid n all!
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 15, 2020 13:06:00 GMT
Bought myself a Seydel Session Steel (it has steel rather than brass reeds,) Its a good harp, but I've lost interest in it. Cost me 48 quid n all! That's awkward. Even the market for the old Larry Adler (patronising git - and Max Geldray was better...) harmonicas isn't what it was in the current crisis. |
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Post by minorkey on Aug 29, 2020 12:11:05 GMT
Here's an attempt at Amazing Grace on the Seydel
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Post by Akquarius on Aug 29, 2020 17:45:04 GMT
I know I live in Harmonica country, but my favourites are Lee Oscar. not too expensive, great for bending, wide variety. Check out the HB9 and HB10 Plucky Dips if you want to know how they sound.
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Post by minorkey on Aug 29, 2020 20:31:40 GMT
I know I live in Harmonica country, but my favourites are Lee Oscar. not too expensive, great for bending, wide variety. Check out the HB9 and HB10 Plucky Dips if you want to know how they sound. To be honest the world of harmonicas is a minefield! So many different ones yet they pretty much all do the same thing. This Seydel is very loud with good sustain but I doubt its worth the price they sell for. Especially when my other harmonica cost me £5 and sounds pretty much the same |
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Post by papadon on Oct 30, 2020 19:00:36 GMT
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Jo whoever he is.
