Lisnaholic

^ That's an interesting comment, heker. It made me think immediately of this track, but then I realised that at 3:40 Jim Morrison is doing the reverse: making the human voice sound like a guitar. Still, it's a great track ....

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Maajo

Yes, like the sounds of his mouth missing the instrument. Wow, so interesting. It sounds exactly like the sound I make when I push air out of my lips, or when I remove the cap from one of my tires. Not much is more interesting than that.

Chula Vista

But it's art man!

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Frownland

In addition to all of the harmonica sounds that you're used to. I think it's far more interesting than how the harmonica is typically used because it changes much more and has fluid, raw emotion. Even if you don't like it, it takes some serious skill (more than just sighing into your harmonica while you strum your guitar--not that that can't be great as well).

You don't seem to understand the music nor do you seem to want to, so let me know when you want to have a big boy conversation instead of being so dismissive. Chula angreeing with you is not a good sign btw.

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Neapolitan

^I was about to post a Charlie Musselwhite for you but I see you already did. Beside Charlie Musselwhite, Slim Harpo is another favorite. Slim is probably my all time favorite, not cause he wails on the harp better than other harmonica players, but cause everything he does is cool - the way he plays guitar and harmonica, and has great singing voice too. I have to thank the Stones for discovering him. (Which brings me to the Stone's song.) I am not sure but I think hey use a Concertina. It's not a accordion of course, but it sounds close. It's really displays the potential of the instrument.

Slim Harpo - Baby Scratch My Back


The Rolling Stones - Back Street Girl 1967

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Lisnaholic

^ Now that is beautiful. Thanks. Perhaps I've just been hearing flute music from the wrong sources!

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Lisnaholic

I've never heard of Slim Harpo, so thamks for the recommendation, Neapolitan -that track is so cool, isn't it? The playing, the lyrics, the tone is wonderful!

And here's something else you can do with the harmonica too:-

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Maajo

I make an effort to give my best ear to any song and open my mind to any music, regardless of convention. Sometimes the conventions are right, sometimes they're wrong. I don't dislike the song because it's unconventional, and it's not that I even dislike the song, I just think it's boring.

Frownland

Ja it has a way of being expressive like a saxophone but in a more morose way.

Hopefully you're not new to Varese? He's must for anyone with an interest in classical music, especially the modern vein. He sits with the giants of modern classical composers like Cage, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. The OG of electronic music and a common ancestor of the post-WWII philosophy of music.

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Maajo

Yeah, that's damn good right there. I'd add Sonny Boy Williamson to the discussion as well.