> In these days of pub sessions, you don't see a lot of piano playing. > There was a women in Edinburgh who played a melodica - that instrument > which you blew through, but which had a little keyboard with which to > make the notes. She attached a long plastic hose to the end and laid it > flat on the table. She'd blow through the hose and play the melodica > like a tiny piano.
If anybody wants one of these I've got one (the "Piano 26" model, one of the better models). I think they cost about fifty quid new. I never got on with it; don't like the keyboard feel, and the sound (one reed, no vibrato) didn't appeal. I think they work better for reggae, good for those cross-accent percussive blasts. I have a fretted clavichord here which I've thought of bringing along to a pub someday (needs a bit of attention after being dropped by furniture movers) - got it free, it has an *extremely* sick story behind it which I will not repeat in public. It's almost as portable as a Yamaha Portasound. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
