From: owner-hollow-digest@smoe.org (hollow-digest) To: hollow-digest@smoe.org Subject: hollow-digest V8 #7 Reply-To: hollow@smoe.org Sender: owner-hollow-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-hollow-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk hollow-digest Tuesday, November 1 2005 Volume 08 : Number 007 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Trina's Harp Playing [] Re: Trina's Harp Playing [raven@igc.org] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:49:50 -0800 From: Subject: Trina's Harp Playing This is my first post hoping to hear from someone on the list. I'm a female harp player from a small town near St. Louis. I'm absolutely stunned by Trina's music. I see from photographs that she uses a green bullet microphone but would like to know what kind of harmonicas she plays. Are they Lee Oskars? The first piece I heard of hers (sitting in my sister's car) was "A Thought" and it put a huge grin on my face for the next week. As soon as I could, I played one of my diatonic blues harps with the CD but discovered that there's something about the lick that I can't accomplish...thinking maybe she's using a 12 hole harp. Does anyone know? Also interested to know if Trina ever uses a chromatic harmonica? Any other details about her harp playing would be great to know. Thanks in advance for anyone's response. Janelle Missouri ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:55:18 -0800 From: raven@igc.org Subject: Re: Trina's Harp Playing At 12:49 PM 10/31/2005, janelle@blacksmithsjournal.com wrote: > >I'm absolutely stunned by Trina's music. So am I... I finally saw her live in Dec 2002, first at Passim's, then she and I drove (with Pamela Means) up to Hallowell Maine, we talked for hours about all kinds of things, she is a fascinating person, I'd love to see her again. >would like to know what kind of harmonicas she plays. >Are they Lee Oskars? I don't know. Many many years ago I used to play harp, I started with a large chromatic (my parents wanted me to play classical or jazz), but I preferred the blues, so I sold the chromatic and got a cheap guitar and several 10-hole diatonic harps in several keys, playing them together... I think they were the cheapest Hohner harps, but I loved playing in the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene. >As soon as I could, I played one of my diatonic >blues harps with the CD but discovered that there's >something about the lick that I can't accomplish... >thinking maybe she's using a 12 hole harp. Or she's very good at bends and overblows, I used to do that with varying degrees of success... but I don't know what she uses. >Also interested to know if Trina ever uses a chromatic harmonica? Not during the two times I saw her live, unless she hid the special "technique" pretty well, it's usually easy to see. I'm guessing the best source is Trina herself, I don't know how often she reads her email, but she has this address at her website: trinahamlin@usa.net You brought back some great memories of Trina live. :) - -- John http://www.myspace.com/johnny_raven ------------------------------ End of hollow-digest V8 #7 **************************