Gerry
54 posts
Jul 06, 2015
11:00 AM
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I just read the Clarence Clemons autobiography "Big Man" from the local library. In it there's a photo of his stand on stage. On it is a MB in F but it looks as if all the comb is taped over with just a cut-out for hole 4.
Anyone got any ideas?
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1847
2563 posts
Jul 06, 2015
11:31 AM
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wasnt that a page out of tony glover's book
where he was teaching how to bend a note
by taping the other holes?
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1847
2564 posts
Jul 06, 2015
12:59 PM
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another possibility.............
sometimes a sax player will tune slightly sharp
joe houston did..... 'much more noticeably sharp" than 442
so could it be he uses it to tune?.... once upon a time before every one and his brother had a tuner
it was quite common for the band to tune to a harmonica.
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Danny Starwars
288 posts
Jul 07, 2015
8:15 AM
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That last one seems more likely - taping it up made it a dedicated tuner.
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Frank101
107 posts
Jul 07, 2015
9:02 AM
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I had a look at Tony G's "Blues Harp", nothing in there about taping holes in either the "Bending" chapter (pages 31-35) or the "Starting out/getting clean notes" chapter (pages 17-23).
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1847
2569 posts
Jul 07, 2015
10:29 AM
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i am pretty sure it was his book, after all
how many books were written about harmonica in the 1970's?
do you have the original book or is there a revised edition?
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