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"Jonathan E. Brickman" <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:45:04 -0500
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> I am Sam Mok, origin from Hong Kong, living in Mississauga, > Ontario Canada over 15 years. I play Chromatic , Tromolo > and 10 holes diatonic. However, tromolo is my preference, whereby, > I learned it since my junior school and now is at mid > 40. I usually play tromolo chromatically in pair. I like to alter > the double reeds and single reed within the music in order to make > both tones more demonstarting. (eg. I can do bending at single reed > , while do chords , Octive, 3rd, 5th at double reeds). This > performance style is common amount Asian and Japanese artists. I > mainly use Tombo and Suzuki and fews from China, with all the > major keys and few minor keys. Sam, I would very much like to hear your work sometime! > I perform hymns and gospel music at Church. I also play a lot of > folks, classical and occasional Jazz. My favorite work in tremolo is jazz or R&R, playing a backup part more often served by either a saxophone or a trumpet, or even by backup singers. I was baptized in a black church here in Topeka, and in some of such churches is, I think, the very highest-quality jazz still extant. > Please keep this communication going. I trust tremolo still > have a lot of bright future. The beauty has not been explored by > many harmonica players, especially in N. Americas. Hope to > see the growth. I think it will. The ensemble advantages are very substantial. -- Jonathan E. Brickman http://joshuacorps.org