GermanHarpist
1680 posts
Aug 09, 2010
6:16 PM
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...when they drew the harp with the holes on the wrong side...
I've seen it too often now... what's up with that?
That's a book to learn/play simple harmonica songs, and the first thing you see (on the cover) is someone holding the harp the wrong way round...??!?
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KingoBad
323 posts
Aug 09, 2010
6:24 PM
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Please don't make fun of the way the Amish play the harmonica. It is insensitive...
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N.O.D.
84 posts
Aug 09, 2010
6:42 PM
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Yo GH that reminds me of this Ebay Picture,
offerd for a Popular Harp Microphone check it out:)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Egg-static-Harp-Mic-crystal-harmonica-microphone-/220651056706?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0
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see anything wrong?
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Stickman
392 posts
Aug 09, 2010
7:08 PM
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As someone who has created harmonica art, I can tell you what I was thinking. What side of a harmonica are you most familiar with? Which side is someone who doesn't play harmonica familiar with? Its the same side. If i were to show the back of the harp, anybody who doesn't play harmonica would ask "what is that in his hand"
Objects have universally recognizable parts (cars have wheels) and artists use those parts as clues to show what the object is regardless of visual accuracy.
There are many ways to depict a car where the wheels are not visible. Next time you walk up to your car pay attention to how much you see of the wheels (or legs of a table in the room you are in now (don't bend over to look, that would be cheating) What I am tying to get at, is that from your perspective wheels and legs are mainly under the object and usually out of view, but if you wanted to communicate a car or a table visually as you would see it. you might show very little of the wheels or legs. But if you wanted to show WHAT those objects ARE so that they are universally recognized, you would include the prominent features of the object
This kind of thinking is (kinda', sorta') what Picasso was getting into with Cubism. His theory is that you don't think of your car as a single picture of a car but as a movie of you approaching your care. First far away from the front where you see both the two front wheels and then later as you get closer to the side and see the two side wheels and finally as you stand over the car and can't see any of the wheels. Picasso basically felt that that multiple view of a car was a more accurate representation of the object than a photograph and tried to show the entire experience in one picture.
In basic terms......so you know what the hell you are looking at.
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The Art Teacher Formally Known As scstrickland
Last Edited by on Aug 09, 2010 7:40 PM
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isaacullah
1124 posts
Aug 09, 2010
7:09 PM
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When you hold it that way, does that mean that when you blow, a draw note sounds? Maybe playing harmonica the "right" way is too easy for the Amish? Maybe they like a challenge? Maybe they use backwards music notation? And who are you to determine what is the "right" way to hold a harmonica anyway! What are you, the harmonica holding police?
:p
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N.O.D.
85 posts
Aug 09, 2010
7:32 PM
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Yo Isaac Bro holding and playing the Harp this way may be Hazardest to your Health:)
The Book looks aimed at the Beginer Players and we all know Newbies use way to much Breath force:)
now if a newbie starts playing and can't get a note he will go for the all time massive inward wail,with the sudden gush of air inwards
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he/she may explode:)
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Stickman
393 posts
Aug 09, 2010
7:39 PM
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Sorry it took so long to complete my post
see above
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The Art Teacher Formally Known As scstrickland
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nacoran
2454 posts
Aug 09, 2010
8:23 PM
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There was a Michelin Tire commercial posted a while back with cute animals (road kill) who were playing instruments. The one playing harmonica was laboring under the same misconceptions about harmonica position as our Amish friend.
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clyde
40 posts
Aug 10, 2010
11:39 AM
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that is a double sided echo harp .... without the split holes
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GermanHarpist
1683 posts
Aug 11, 2010
7:29 AM
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Stickman, I get your point and the way you portrayed the harp I actually like quite a lot. Also the skull is nice and not irritating IMO because it is very abstract.
However when the picture is more realistic I am not quite sure if it is really so little recognizable as a harmonica. The picture in the OP would as far as I can tell also been recognizable if the harmonica was dpeicted correctly. And especially if there's harmonica written right beside it in capital letters... :)
Anyway, recognizability is definitely a valid point... for turning the/(my) world upside down. :)
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