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Winslow Yerxa + a Hohner 364 + a Cup = Modern
Winslow Yerxa + a Hohner 364 + a Cup = Modern
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Frank
4585 posts
Jun 21, 2014
3:45 AM
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Found this in another thread and was excited enough to share it again :)
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WinslowYerxa
626 posts
Jun 21, 2014
8:57 AM
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Thanks, Frank.
This tune is in 12-bar blues form (a couple of interludes aside), except that I've replaced everything but the opening I chord with something else. The IV chord turns into a bII chord, giving it that "Spanish" flavor (E chord -> F chord).
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Winslow
Plunge into the SPAH Experience, August 5-9, 2014
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Frank
4592 posts
Jun 21, 2014
9:47 AM
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That's the most impressive tune I've heard played on a harp like that in a long time -
There are few and far between floating around that I know of using a harp like that...
Sugar Blue does "Another Man Gone" with one similar and of course Rice Millers "Bye Bye Bird"...
Any other Players we should know about that did that harp proud and has a recording available to hear? :)
Last Edited by Frank on Jun 21, 2014 9:54 AM
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WinslowYerxa
627 posts
Jun 21, 2014
10:11 AM
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The 364 comes in Low D as well as Low C. Sonny Boy used a low D on some of the live recordings made in Europe and the UK in the early 1960s.
Back then the UK equivalent of the 364 was available in several low keys, and John Mayall used a Low F for his tribute tune "I Heard Sonny Boy Blow."
Nowadays low and extra-low harps are available in the 10-hole format - Hohner Thunderbird and various Seydel models, and a variety of players have made us of them. Dennis Gruenling is one who really favors low harps.
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Winslow
Plunge into the SPAH Experience, August 5-9, 2014
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Frank
4593 posts
Jun 21, 2014
10:20 AM
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It's rare to see those harps used ( 364,365)...When I saw you were using a 364 - that got my attention, again bravo - just an excellent job using that harp, no small feat...We need more players doing something with the 364 and 5 :)
Last Edited by Frank on Jun 21, 2014 11:55 AM
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robbert
325 posts
Jun 21, 2014
7:01 PM
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Thanks, Frank, for re-posting that clip.
And thanks, Winslow! That is really good. I would enjoy hearing/seeing more. You cover a lot of genres!
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shadoe42
300 posts
Jun 22, 2014
10:48 AM
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This is pretty nifty. Love how the cup gives a muted horn sound, sometimes a trombone others a trumpet
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Dr. Rev. Mr. Cheeks Miller
My Electronic Music World
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WinslowYerxa
630 posts
Jun 22, 2014
1:37 PM
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Thanks, everyone.
Here's a tune where I used a Hohner 365 SBS (Steve Baker Special, where regular diatonic tuning starts in Hole 4, while Holes 1,2, and 3 duplicate 4, 5, and 6 an octave lower - in essence, you get two octaves' worth of the tuning on Holes 1, 2, and 3). The one I'm playing in this recording has Holes 1-3 in Low G, with the rest of the harp in regular G.
The tune is a Scottish reel called "Forfeit O' Da Ship." However, I'm playing it as a *groove reel* - my term for taking a fast reel, slowing it down, and making it groove at that slower tempo. In this version, I've set it against a New Orleans-style piano backing. I improvise some, and I also added a little interlude.
The recording has some rough cut-and-past edits, and of course, ten years later I think I could play it much better, but here it is:
Forfeit O' Da Ship as a groove reel
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Winslow
Plunge into the SPAH Experience, August 5-9, 2014
Last Edited by WinslowYerxa on Jun 22, 2014 1:42 PM
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blingty
30 posts
Jun 22, 2014
2:12 PM
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Both tracks are very nice, Winslow. For the record, who played the piano?
I meant to compliment you on the one-chord playing you did in another thread, an original blues.
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WinslowYerxa
631 posts
Jun 22, 2014
2:16 PM
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Thanks, Blingty.
The piano is a part that I wrote and sequenced (i.e., it's a synth generated in the computer). It's based partly on New Orleans style and partly on Cape Breton style, which accompanies Scottish traditional dance music with strong left-hand bass lines and rhythmic chording. I've been fortunate enough to soak up a lot of the sound of that style from Barbara MacDonald Magone, one of its greatest practitioners and a fellow member of the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers.
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Winslow
Plunge into the SPAH Experience, August 5-9, 2014
Last Edited by WinslowYerxa on Jun 22, 2014 2:17 PM
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