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Militia question 1

Mercutio said:
[slight derail, but genuinely curious] So, is it the first instrument that comes to mind when someone says they were "taught to play the harp"? (I think "trained on the harp" is pretentious enough to imply the stringed ones...) [/derail]
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It might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but what does that matter?

Harp is a legitimate term for harmonica.

And, IMO, "trained on the harp" could be sardonic enough to mean the harmonica. I do not have enough of a sample of the author's prose to make a determination of style.

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Mercutio said:
A harmonica has no reeds! Come on!*
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:D :D :D *ducks, runs*

*yeah, I know, some will pedantically call it a glass reed, just as a flute has an "air reed", but that ruins the joke...
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Whatever it is...I've heard it played, and it's beautiful.
 
c0rbin said:
It might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but what does that matter?
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Not a whole lot. It's just that it seemed a tempest in a teapot on this thread--my own first reaction was "pedal harp? I had no idea", and I wondered whether you, south of the Mason-Dixon, had a similar or different initial reaction. It seems to me that the choice of words led to confusion, and I wondered whether that was my biased perception or whether others would have had the same reaction.

Harp is a legitimate term for harmonica.
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No argument from me. It is also a legitimate term for several other things...
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And, IMO, "trained on the harp" could be sardonic enough to mean the harmonica. I do not have enough of a sample of the author's prose to make a determination of style.
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Fair enough.
 
I wondered how long it would be before this thread degenerated into blaming it on the Jew's...





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Harp

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Mercutio said:
Go ahead, spoil the joke, ignore the fact that the site that was taken from refers to them as Harmonicas, and that "Armonica" is also a perfectly acceptable spelling for harmonica of the "blues harp" form (ok, in Spanish and Italian, but still...)...

But noooooooo....you had to let the air out of my little joke....

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Well here, perhaps this will in some small measure, make it up to you.

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/musician/virtualarmonica.html

(You may want to turn down your computer's speakers)
 
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