JustFuya
354 posts
Jul 25, 2014
2:00 PM
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I never cease to be amazed.
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KingoBad
1507 posts
Jul 25, 2014
2:30 PM
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The Spiers stage 10 Marine Band does the same thing....
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Danny
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JustFuya
355 posts
Jul 25, 2014
2:59 PM
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I immediately thought about applying that technology to the harp and I couldn't visualize it smaller than a hard cover copy of War & Peace.
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arzajac
1429 posts
Jul 25, 2014
4:08 PM
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Magnets. Solder them on to the tips of brass reeds or use stainless reeds if you like that sound.
TurboHarp has a magnet device for bending the blow notes. Give it another decade and someone will come up with a harp that can change keys or tunings with the touch of a button.
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Custom overblow harps. Harmonica service and repair.
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walterharp
1473 posts
Jul 25, 2014
4:10 PM
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my cousin told me about a Steve Goodman concert he went to.
He broke a string and managed to tell the stage tech where the string was, get it on his guitar and tune it, all while continuing the song with rhyming lyrics.
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JustFuya
357 posts
Jul 25, 2014
5:02 PM
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Going on topic while off topic. Is that legal?
There is an another discussion regarding the definition of a "professional grade" musician. The Steve Goodman story exemplifies my definition of a pro. In the woodshed you can restart the BT and give it another go when you spunk a reed or break a string. On stage the pros continue without missing a beat.
I love that. Everyone in the band is laughing while the majority of the audience is clueless.
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jbone
1705 posts
Jul 26, 2014
6:32 AM
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I've seen a guy pop his E string and change and tune it during a song. Took under a minute as far as I could tell. Bass player kept the groove, drummer kept the pocket, guitarist kept singing. Holland K. Smith.
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waltertore
2709 posts
Jul 26, 2014
7:07 AM
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I learned being around the blues guys that when a string breaks it is a great time to tell some stories/jokes while putting a new one on and not to hurry doing it. It was often the highlight of the show for me. To rush was low class for those guys but the norm for most of the white guys. A confident player doesn't fear the audience leaving if he takes his time putting a new string on. Also many of the old guys didn't carry many/if any extra strings so they had to play without it/or put a wrong one on, or if another member in the band had one, get it from him. I finished many a gig with only 5 strings/wrong strings/knots in strings and capo'd above the knot and learned to work around it. It sounds crazy now but it was not all that uncommon back then. I remember one night seeing buddy guy/junior wells. Junior stepped on buddy's guitar cord by accident and broke the cord jack. Buddy stomped off. Junior then proceeded to kick each member off the stage within a few minutes telling each they needed to learn how to play before getting back on a stage. He ended up playing solo harp for a about a 1/2 hour and that was the end of the show. Then one night when I was helping Sonny terry get around he and brownie started an argument on the first song and I ended up breaking up a fist fight between them. That ended that show. These things are not happy things but it showed how much those old guys were independent in the sense that they played for themself and not others. When they were on it was magic but when off it was like in a room with razor blades flying at you. Nowadays people carry a back up guitar so they can switch it so fast a note is not missed for fear people might leave and never is there an "unprofessional" shown onstage. That vibe, which is so easy to feel that I avoid most live music today for it, reaks of uptight, predictable. I can pretty much script their entire concert from the first note to last with performs like this. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
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Last Edited by waltertore on Jul 26, 2014 7:29 AM
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1847
1993 posts
Jul 26, 2014
7:29 AM
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the average guitar player uses FAR too much force
while bending strings.
take a player like billy gibbons, who uses SUPER DUPER
EXTRA light strings,
and NEVER breaks a string, NEVER ever never never.
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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
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waltertore
2710 posts
Jul 26, 2014
7:31 AM
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1847: I agree and play with my thumb and fingers (no picks) and break a string every 5 years or so. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
my videos
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1847
1994 posts
Jul 26, 2014
7:39 AM
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walter, i have not yet, had coffee this morning,
i was just, how they say in new york:
busting your balls. peace coop.
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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
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waltertore
2711 posts
Jul 26, 2014
7:49 AM
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1847: I took it as great post and totally agreed with it. I did break strings every now and then when doing 200 or so gigs a year. That is why I often never had backup strings because they rarely broke and I prefered to buy a sharp looking fake gold ring that looked 100% under the stage lights :) I remember when I asked Roy Buchanan about changing strings. He said he changed them when they broke. I know guys now that change them every gig! Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
my videos
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1847
1995 posts
Jul 26, 2014
7:58 AM
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walter, those are some awesome stories.
i can picture brownie and sonny
arguing from the moment they woke.
having it come to a head,at the first song.
tying a knot in a string, and using a capo,
now that is a new one to me! i like it! now thats the blues
right there,ya'll
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Goldbrick
563 posts
Jul 26, 2014
8:09 AM
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Seiously white guys cant even change strings correctly-amazing.
its not usually force its corrosion - or a ruff spot in the saddles. Some guys ( like eric Clapton) like the sound of worn strings. Other guys change before every show.
Just have a second guitar set up and ready to go-not a big deal
An aside- Years ago I did some photo work for John Prine and Steve Goodman when they were on tour together- two of the nicest, funniest guys i have met. RIP Steve
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waltertore
2712 posts
Jul 26, 2014
8:24 AM
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1847: The tying the knot requires leaving the string ends uncut and hopefully the string breaks at the bridge or neck. That saved me many a night.
Goldbrick: Believe it or not many pros back in the 70's never had a second guitar and some had no guitar or it was in the pawn shop. I knew an old pawn shop owner from chicago who retired to CA and sold cheap guitars at a flea market on Saturdays. I helped him out and he got me marine bands for $3 each. He told me Junior Wells use to come in his shop all the time to pawn his harps. Sid gave him a couple bucks and said he usually told Junior to keep the harps. The extra guitar was a rock thing. When a rock star would come to sit in on a gig with an old blues guy they usually came with multiple guitars and a guitar tech- all for 1 or 2 songs. I remember many of those guys giving a quiet chuckle at that. the rock guys often brought their own amp and pedal board too. The old guys mostly played with an amp wide open and pickups set wide open and rarely changed pu positions. They got their tone in about 10 seconds when they got onstage and left it there. the rock guys would be tweaking pedals and pickups every 10 seconds as they played and switched guitars from solos to rhythm much like a lot of harp players do today with their gizmos :-) It basically was all based on finacial level. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
my videos
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