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Re: Join Together --> Who's Next
- To: thewho@mpath.com
- Subject: Re: Join Together --> Who's Next
- From: Lev Polinsky <polinsky@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 21:23:49 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <PMX-TERM-2.2a-tms-maiullo-194>
- Sender: owner-thewho
On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Gary Maiullo wrote:
> ----------------------- Begin Original Message ----------------------
> > P.S. Leave it to Pete to create a landmark song (Join Together)
> > where the main instruments are the jaw harp and harmonica.
>
> What's a jaw harp? Blowing through the holes between your teeth?
> ------------------------ End Original Message -----------------------
> Lev --
> Please excuse the description, but a Jaws Harp, or Jews Harp
> (that's what we called it when we were growing up.... no anti-semetic
> sentiment intended....) is a funny-shaped-piece-of-a-metal thing, that
> has a thin piece of metal in the middle. You are supposed to hold the
> thing up to your mouth, so the thin metal piece is over your mouth, and
> then you "stroke" the metal piece so that it vibrates. You change the sound
> by opening/closing your throat, and chging the shape of the inside of your
> mouth. THAT is what is being played at the beginning of Join Together.
> (Forgive me my lame description...!)
>
Actually it's called a Jew's Harp, or a Jews' Harp. Your description
mirrors the Webster's; the only thing I could add is that CC thinks it is
possibly Pete on a synthesizer reproducing the sound of a Jew's Harp.
I guess I should have added a smiley to my original comment.
---I won't get fooled again.--L-e-v-