AFMM MicroMay '97 info

By the way folks, locations and programs for the
remaining MicroMay '97 in NYC this week May 21-23 at at url:

www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/AFMM/


My review of the first concert on May 16 is at url:

www.virtulink.com/immp/jux/j_index.htm


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Neil wrote,

>Hooray...at last, my 34 tone acoustic bass is finished. I must thank
>the late Larry Hanson for the financial support which made this possible,
>and John Starrett for a great job on the instrument itself. Between
>Starrett and myself we now have: 34 tone electric guitar/bass, 34
>acoustic guitar/bass, 19 tone electric and acoustic guitar/bass, 31 tone
>electric, and a fretless guitar as well. Upcoming projects are a 31
>acoustic guitar/bass, and a fretless acoustic. I believe Paul Erlich now
>has his 22 tone guitar, so I would be interested to see what he comes up
>with...again, Hanson needs much thanks, because he believed enough in his
>dreams to make them a reality...Hstick

Congratulations, Neil! That's exciting news.

Are these acoustic basses uprights with frets or do they resemble acoustic
guitars?

John Starrett has refretted my 7-string guitar neck to 22-equal and sent it
to me. Once I receive it, some work will still need to be done on the
guitar. Then I intend to study and practice very hard. Although this means
being a hermit for a long period of time, I am confident that it will pay
off -- the music is already coming together on the keyboard, but I can't do
very much when I can barely span a "fifth" with one hand. The last ten
years of teaching myself 12-tone guitar have been very fruitful in that I
can comfortably improvise in a wide variety of diatonic idioms, plus blues
and the occasional octatonic stuff. As good as people seem to think I am,
the world is already saturated with great 12-tone guitar players; who
really needs one more? Hopefully I can carry over some of my aural and
technical skills to this new instrument. But it will take some time to
unlearn diatonic thinking, and to forge an improvisatory style that is
musical without being derivative. Maybe after ten more years I'll be onto
something!

-Paul E.

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