I want to consider acquiring one of Brendan's Twin Harmonica System devices to unite two slide harmonicas, so I attached my SSCH-56 to my SCX-56 and improvised a blues. It seems to work, if you encourage me I am more inclined to continue (I'm very impressionable) and hopefully become the first one on my block to own one. Feel free to criticize my tone etc, I am also a glutton for punishment.
You had me laughing at the end! Kudos to you for being able to switch harps like that.
Not being much of a chromatic player, why would one use two chromatics to play over those changes? My one observation was that sonically it was pleasing when you did your fills on the top harmonica.
Mid-stream edit: I now understand that the SSCH-56 is a chord harmonica.
My only comment is play it again like you mean it! Chromatic sounds best when played with a good attack. ---------- Ridge's YouTube
@Ridge Yeah, sorry, you aren't going to get the same level of commitment from my performances as you would from a "real bluesman". I'm kinda playing for fun most of the time. Those blues guys really mean it--ladies and gentlemen, I give you . . . Mooncat!
Thanks! I might work up another something for a video--at this point, the two harps are separate--the tape took a bit of work to remove, but the harps were secure! I do appreciate all commments!
Define "afford" hehehe. I do owe a bit on credit cards . . . And I did get a discount on these, as I am the repair guy for Suzuki(this video was taken at work). One of the chromatics is the chord harp--it's the more expensive one. I played music for many years before pulling the trigger on chromatic, for fear I wouldn't like it and couldn't return it to recoup my considerable investment.
Yes, you 'work' for Suzuki but clearly got caught 'not working' for Suzuki! ;)
Same thing happened to me recently when my boss caught me practicing at work. Fortunately for me, he was so amused at my pathetic playing that he let me off!
Perhaps I should go busking with a cardboard sign reading 'Need money for lessons'..?
Last Edited by Harmlessonica on Apr 16, 2015 9:32 AM
"Yes, you 'work' for Suzuki but clearly got caught 'not working' for Suzuki! ;)"
Well, there is a case to be made for this effort to be "working for Suzuki"--we have a bunch of those chord harps in stock, and I am sure the folk who pay me are happy to see me promoting the instrument.
"Same thing happened to me recently when my boss caught me practicing at work. Fortunately for me, he was so amused at my pathetic playing that he let me off!"
Hey, I have to test the repaired harmonicas--don't I?
"Perhaps I should go busking with a cardboard sign reading 'Need money for lessons'..?"
I suggested that on this forum long ago, inspired by a
post by Karen Mantler, Carla Bley's daughter-- "I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life serving coffee, so I decided to try panhandling on the street. I had an old accordion that I had never really learned to play, and I had the idea that I could earn some spare change while practicing. I took it out to the busiest corner I could find in Greenwich Village and put out a sign that said: please help me pay for lessons. Most everyone who passed me commented on how badly I needed lessons and gave me a few coins. By the end of the night I had earned fifty dollars! I might have continued doing this, but the accordion was so heavy that one night I dropped it and it broke. To be honest, I was sort of relieved. It was hard work carrying that thing around. "
Last Edited by Gnarly on Apr 16, 2015 11:02 AM
Nice little anecdote Gnarly, I may even give it a go. I do play after work whilst waiting at the bus stop... people walk by and smile. I guess a smile is a couple of pennies short of a tip..?
BTW good work manually colour coding your quotes. Slow day at work..? ;)
Ja . . . I have shot a few videos from our luxurious offices in Santee, California, this one comes to you from my harmonica repair suite which adjoins our warehouse of harmonicas and the like. I'm not there today, only Tuesday thru Thursday. That gives me Monday and Friday for gigs and home repairs.
