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Harmonica players
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Sarge
496 posts
Oct 16, 2015
7:13 AM
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I've been playing harmonica for 57 years and as a harmonica player, I always liked hearing professional harmonica players. One thing I have found out about professional harmonica players is that they are nice, friendly folks. The ones I have met have all been friendly. There may be some out there that are snobs, but in all my years, I have not met them.
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ted burke
398 posts
Oct 16, 2015
12:11 PM
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That pretty well matches my experiences as a harmonica with fifty years experience on the instrument. Over all, we tend to be a cordial lot. There are A holes in every population, of course, but I have not seen the ego wars erupt amongst harmonica players as I've seen it happen on players of other instruments. I would say,though, that over all musicians are generally good, solid folks. Your mileage may vary , of course.
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1847
2821 posts
Oct 16, 2015
1:48 PM
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william clarke was at times intimidating as hell.
he would push his sunglasses down his nose,
and give you "the look" almost make you pee your pants.lol
he was also super nice,he always would answer any questions. a genuine grateful person.
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jbone
2059 posts
Oct 17, 2015
4:20 AM
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There is a unique sense of community between us in a lot of ways. People have given me harps, mics, once even an amp that actually worked! Which my philosophy has always been to pass on a kind gesture, and I have been blessed to be able to do that as well. An old friend long ago bought me a how to play harp book, I think in hopes it would improve my playing. At the time I was pretty much unteachable, but later on gave that book and a harp to a young kid who actually learned to play!
In my 43 or so years' playing harp I have been given countless blessings by my peers. Many are the times I have been shown a kind gesture and few have been the negatives.
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cliffy
167 posts
Oct 17, 2015
5:30 AM
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Sarge, my experience has been then same, although I haven't met more than a few professional harmonicists.
When I lived in Manchester, CT (I was going to school for prosthetics at the time), there was a great little bar called The Hungry Tiger that had great blues seven nights a week. It was a place where lots of touring acts would play mid-week to make some extra gas money on the way to bigger gigs. There I met James Harman, Mark Hummel, and William Clarke, all of whom were really nice and gracious enough to give a few pointers to a young whippersnapper harp player like myself.
At the StephenTalkhouse in Amagansett (on Long Island), Rick Estrin was the same way. He stood outside by his van and talked with my friends and I for a while, and even demonstrated some tongue-blocking. He seemed pretty happy to be able to talk some harmonica with us.
Dennis Gruenling is another super-nice guy. Hung out with him a couple of times seeing Gary Primich and Rod Piazza play Chicago B.L.U.E.S. (great blues club in Manhattan, long since closed). He afterwards sent me a couple of records that he had doubles of that he knew I would like.
Overall, I have found most harmonica players, pros or everyday folks like us, to be fairly nice and decent people. Here on Long Island, there are a bunch of harmonica players and we are all pretty supportive of one another -- no one ever has anything bad to say about each other (unless they are all saying it about me behind my back!). Even when we dust it up on the forum here, it usually doesn't get too out of hand.
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jawbone
597 posts
Oct 17, 2015
5:31 AM
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Well Sarge, that is 'cause you're just a big, lovable, cuddly Teddy Bear!!!! :-)
Darn, I need emoticons!!!
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