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Here's a new sort of performer for performers.net
to: Jim at PERFORMERS.NET
from: glassharper@hotmail.com
filename: PERFNET.ESA
Jim (and company):
I am glad to have discovered PERFORMERS.NET. It is a great
comfort to know that there is a concerned group of professionals
out there willing to share their experience with each other. Here
is an introduction to The GlassMan.
I play a glass harmonica. Nearly everyone knows how to bug their
favorite bar tender by rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a
stemmed wine glass. My instrument comprises twenty-seven water-
tuned goblets that form a chromatically-tuned musical instrument
spanning two octaves and a major second. I have vague recollections
of getting in trouble, fifty years ago, at Sunday dinner for
messing with my water goblet. I figure, in a very real sense, I've
been getting in trouble messing with water goblets ever since!
A street performer for fourteen years I have worked for the last
eight (at least until it gets too hot and humid to earn a living as
a street performer) in New Orleans. I'll then migrate to Harvard
Square where I'll work until it gets to cold and crummy to earn a
living as a street performer, at which point I return to New
Orleans. Its what I call a peripatetic life style!
I starved for a few years until, by watching other buskers, I
discovered that most of the audience doesn't really care a whole
lot about the music, they want to be entertained! My act is
perfect for children and family groups and includes renditions of
pop, jazz and classical tunes as well as a humorous introduction to
the history and physics of glass music.
Since the glass instrument is too fragile to take out in the
squirrely streets of New Orelans at night I built a hurdy gurdy a
few years ago. When asked "what IS that instrument?" I tell people,
"This is a medieval hurdy gurdy, although some of my friends call
it an EVIL hurdy gurdy -- it's the very DEVIL to keep in tune in
this changeable New Orleans humidity!"
My press kit is available to anyone who sends me a snail-mail
address and my cassette tape, "A Touch of Glass" is available from
the below address for $12.00.
Sincerely,
PETER (The GlassMan) BENNETT
glassharper@hotmail.com
1000 Bourbon St., #290
New Orleans, LA 70116
504-481-4987
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Peter (the New Orleans GlassHarper) Bennett
from: glassharper@hotmail.com
filename: PERFNET.ESA
Jim (and company):
I am glad to have discovered PERFORMERS.NET. It is a great
comfort to know that there is a concerned group of professionals
out there willing to share their experience with each other. Here
is an introduction to The GlassMan.
I play a glass harmonica. Nearly everyone knows how to bug their
favorite bar tender by rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a
stemmed wine glass. My instrument comprises twenty-seven water-
tuned goblets that form a chromatically-tuned musical instrument
spanning two octaves and a major second. I have vague recollections
of getting in trouble, fifty years ago, at Sunday dinner for
messing with my water goblet. I figure, in a very real sense, I've
been getting in trouble messing with water goblets ever since!
A street performer for fourteen years I have worked for the last
eight (at least until it gets too hot and humid to earn a living as
a street performer) in New Orleans. I'll then migrate to Harvard
Square where I'll work until it gets to cold and crummy to earn a
living as a street performer, at which point I return to New
Orleans. Its what I call a peripatetic life style!
I starved for a few years until, by watching other buskers, I
discovered that most of the audience doesn't really care a whole
lot about the music, they want to be entertained! My act is
perfect for children and family groups and includes renditions of
pop, jazz and classical tunes as well as a humorous introduction to
the history and physics of glass music.
Since the glass instrument is too fragile to take out in the
squirrely streets of New Orelans at night I built a hurdy gurdy a
few years ago. When asked "what IS that instrument?" I tell people,
"This is a medieval hurdy gurdy, although some of my friends call
it an EVIL hurdy gurdy -- it's the very DEVIL to keep in tune in
this changeable New Orleans humidity!"
My press kit is available to anyone who sends me a snail-mail
address and my cassette tape, "A Touch of Glass" is available from
the below address for $12.00.
Sincerely,
PETER (The GlassMan) BENNETT
glassharper@hotmail.com
1000 Bourbon St., #290
New Orleans, LA 70116
504-481-4987
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Peter (the New Orleans GlassHarper) Bennett
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