Re: how many hands has Joseph Moskowitz?

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

on 2/14/01 10:34 AM, ro (at) panix(dot)com at ro (at) panix(dot)com wrote:

> 3. JM is playing like an SOB (sonofabulgar) on that melody with
> ornaments and fills, but that bass line is coming from
> a piano player?

son-of-a-bulgar is a great euphemism for SOB.
> 
> 4. JM had 4 arms and 4 hands and thus was able to play 3 or 4
> melodic / harmonic lines at once.
> 
> 5. Les Paul is a liar and JM had invented overdubbing as of 1916.

Even though Les Paul invented multi-tracking, having heard him play, I still
think he has more than 2 arms and hands. While on the Les Paul topic, anyone
who can should check out the Dangerous Curves exhibit at MFA. They have one
of Les' old guitars from the 50s, among other interesting specimens.

To keep this only slightly near topic, I have always found it fascinating
the role that various Polish, Russian and eastern-European immigrants, both
Jewish and non-Jewish, had on the development of the guitar. John Dopyera
(Dobro, National), Hermann Weissenborn (Hawaiian lap steel guitars), etc...

Seth
   
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