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Whilst tooling about in the motorcar the other day, listening to the
sonorous strains of my favorite classical music station, I happened to
hear
a piece for orchestra and harp - no, not the Harpo harp but the
HARMONICA,
curiously at odds with the rest of the ensemble. It was the aural
equivalent
of a wreck on the highway, or a good cage fight, for I was horrified
and yet
could not turn away. Have you ever had any "longhair" aspirations with
said
instrumentation? Oh my poor uncultured brother, hast thou ne'er heard of Toots Thielmans? Or Larry Adler? John Sebastian Sr.? The Harmonica, dear sir, is an exquisitely apropos instrument for...ahem..."long-hair" music. It is a well-known musico-historical fact that Bach only wrote all those pieces for strings because the violinists had such a strong union, and cellists are a notoriously violent group. And the viola players! Don't even ask. |
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