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From: Bobbie Giordano
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 19:00:35 -0500
Subject: Re: LW - bent notes

At 01:39 AM 2/13/00 -0500, Glenn Weiser wrote:
>And here's a question for LW heads: I have to edit a transcription of
>LWs Blue Lights done by someone else for Masters of Blues Harp. To me it
>sounds like he starts on a chro, goes to a diatonic, and back to a chro,
>but the score I have before me says he starts on a diatonc and then goes
>to a chro without starting on a chro first.
<>
>But I don't hear note bends in the beginning, which is a telltale clue.

Sorry, Glenn, [guess it ain't your week,] but that notion is "clueless",
because nothing proves that chromatics can't bend notes. They're just
"valved-bends", is all; and many chromatics today are very "bendable".

Perhaps you'll recall awhile back when I wrote onlist about being able to
even get overbends on a Renny that had no windsavers on the reedslots. And
for that matter, one quote we love to repeat came from Charlie Musselwhite
after he tried the Renaissance... he told me it bent notes more easily than
any chromatic he'd ever played.

So, just because you don't hear bends doesn't necessarily mean it must have
been played on a chromatic. The timbre may be a tip-off, though, as single
reed bends [as with valved instruments] sound different from dual reed
bends; but, they are definitely possible on either. On the other hand, a
number of players have routinely taken valves off of their chromatics in
order to get certain types of bent sounds out of their instruments. So,
even without valves, a chromatic might be used for bent notes, just as a
diatonic could be used to play without them.

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