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From: Douglas Tate
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 18:27:08 +0100
Subject: Hugh

What a title!

>>Nah. We're just all too busy talking about ferrets and trying to pick
>>fights with Doug to talk about harmonicas.

>> -- hugh

Note please our net Guru, keeper of standards, layerdown of rules, arbiter
of quarrels, impartial remover of clients when harp content nonexistant. I
would say that he is guilty of minimalist content. The mention of the word
harmonica juxtaposed to the name of a famous and dearly loved player thereby
trying to enhance his own reputation by association is hardly what I would
call Harp content.
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In the Blue corner: .......... I'm ready.
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statements of belief.:

The harmonica has not been successfully synthesized yet. (Which the heck
noise do you synthesize?)

The sampled sounds of harmonica are still not convincing when used to
produce tunes from single sampling. (sample a tune and it sounds like a
tune, play it again and it sounds the same (sheer poetry!))

Amplified harp, where the object is to present the actual sound of the harp
and not a 'version' of it is pretty good, but still altered because the
viewpoint of the listener is not usually that of the microphone.

Harp and amp used as a creative combined instrument has tremendous potential
in music and is being fully exploited by many superb players.

The unamplified harp has its place in modern music.

The amplified sound of a harp seldom reflects the true range of volume and
tone that the player is producing as the involuntary movement relative to
the mic produces greater variations in these factors than the same movement
relative to a listener.
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OK Any takers
winner sends a tape of self to loser, double defeat.

Oh! BTW Ferrets are loving, cuddlesome creatures, they LOVE being kept in
the places Hugh mentioned earlier. Try it sometime. Become a male soprano
at absolutely no cost.

Douglas T