Re: Join Together --> Who's Next

[maiullo@tms.attmail.com (Gary Maiullo)]

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> 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?
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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...!)

        gary m.