<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#3dffff"><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/22/2003 12:30:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com writes:<BR>
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Banjos<BR>
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Dan Spink Adds A Question for Charlie Hook or Anyone Else:<BR>
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Charlie, right on! I've more often run into guitar players who, as you so well put it, "amp up" to where you can't hear yourself playing. I've often wondered why they do this? I met an R&D studio producer some years ago who was doing young rock stuff off the street. He told me he recorded the group and then separately added strings and other percussion around them later. One group got big enough to play with a full orchestra, he said, and they were so unused to playing with a sense of balance vs. other instruments, they "amped up" the guitars to the point where the orchestra couldn't work with them. So what is wrong with those folks? Are they tone deaf or harmonically challenged? <BR>
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Dan (piano fingers) Spink</FONT></HTML>