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Tinus [1.] - introduction

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:16:45 +0100

I just finished my new Dutch website: www.tinuskoorn.nl, visit it for an up to date performance schedule and the latest videos and photos. In the near future I will start to change tenhole.com to be more and more about the harmonica and less about me.

I am what is sometimes called an overblow player and one of the few diatonic harmonica players that take the radical approach of playing everything on a single diatonic harmonica. Although the use of overblows has started to become widespread among bluesharp players the use of the diatonic harmonica as a ful

Tinus [1.] - delft

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:14:55 +0200

I live and work in Delft. Delft is one of Holland's older cities located between The Hague and Rotterdam.

Delft recieved city rights in 1246, but because of a large fire in 1536 and a large explosion in a gunpowder warehouse in 1654, very few of the old buildings have survived.

I first moved to De

Tinus [1.] - starting to play

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:15:27 +0100

I bought my first harmonica on a very cold but sunny afternoon on the 30th of January 1995 at Dol's music store in the Choorstraat in Delft.

It was a little over a month since my father had passed away and I didn't know what to do with myself.
After listening to the Funkadelic song "Music for My Mother" ten times in a row, I decided that maybe it would help if I played the harmonica.
So I went out and bought myself a Marine Band in the key of C and started playing.

After a week I bought the Harp Handbook by Steve Baker and found out about overblows. That's when any chance of living a normal live went out the window.
I spent the next couple of years practicing bends and overblows from when I got up in the morning until I fell asleep at night.

After about a year and a half (which included playing in a sort of blues band) I found my way to the jazz workshop of the university at whi

bands/combos [2.] - koorn verschragen lavooij

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:30:24 +0100

Tinus Koorn - Harmonica

Ernst Verschragen - Piano

Just Lavooij - Double Bass

Koorn Verschragen Lavooij is the jazz harmonica trio in is most basic form; a piano and a double bass form the rhythm section and the harmonica plays the lead. The repertoire consists of jazz standards from the swing, bop, harbop and bossa eras supplemented with works written by the group members.

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bands/combos [2.] - tenderly

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:53:56 +0100

Tinus Koorn - Harmonica

Dick van Wijngaarden - El. Guitar

Egbert de Vries - Ac. Guitar

Tenderly's repertoir is built around the different backgrounds of the three players in the group. Tinus' speciality is in modern jazz, Egbert's speciality is in flamenco and Dick is specialised in gypsy swing. The material best suited for a combination of these styles turned out to be the Bossa Nova of Brasil. This gentle style of Latin Jazz allows for the combination of highly develloped guitar technique with a strong rhythmic element and lots of room for improvisation.

Het repertoire van Tenderly is samengesteld rond de zeer verschillende muzikale achtergronden vad de leden van het trio.
Tinus' zijn specialisatie ligt in de moderne jazz, Egbert's specialisatie is de flame

bands/combos [2.] - waldorf

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:33:15 +0200

One of the bands I play in is not really a band that rehearses or has members that are a constant factor. It is more a collective of improvising musicians. The musicians that participate are different every time although some are there more regularly than others.

During concerts people wander on and off the stage, start playing or leave for home, lyrics that used to have a function in a pop song are rediscovered and reused as a free-jazz improvisation, electronic effects run hot from their constant use and the food is always good.
You can find Waldorf audio at:

www.purevolume.com/waldorf

bands/combos [2.] - ehq

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:14:32 +0100

The electric harmonica quartet or the electric harmonica quintet, Wim Dijkgraaf does not play in the quintet. Because of the difference in line-up between the quartet and the quintet the type of music played also differs.

Both groups play modern jazz with ample room for improvisation. The quintet allows for more complex arrangements and more interplay between soloists. The quartet focuses more on hardbop with a more riffbased approach to the arrangements.

members:

Thierry Crommen - chromatic/diatonic harmonica

Wim Dijkgraaf - chromatic harmonica

Ludo Beckers - diatonic harmonica

Tinus Koorn - diatonic harmonica

Luci�n Winterberg - bass harmonica

bands/combos [2.] - koorn meijer kwintet

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:51:00 +0200

Tinus Koorn - harmonica

Evelien Meijer - vocals

Carlos Ema - piano

Francesco Angiula - double bass

Emanuel Donadelli - drums

The Koorn Meijer Kwintet was formed especially for the wednesday evening jazz concerts at the music bar/restaurant La Valletta in the Hague. The quintet plays a concert there every other week which is followed by a session where the Hague's jazz students try out there performance skills.

the harmonica [3.] - a meisterklasse hybrid

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:49:35 +0200

Since people that start out playing always wonder what harmonicas people play I thought it might be nice to show people exactly what harmonicas I play and what I have done to them to get them to play properly.

The first harmonica I played was a Hohner MS Marineband, a leaky and badly setup harp with a comb that could take the skin of your lips if you didn't pay attention. I lost it a couple of months after I bought it when I went sailing on the Westeinderplas, I had it in the breastpocket of my shirt and it fell overboard when I reached for a foresheet.

Since I had become very serious about the harmonica in the short time that I had played it, I decided that my next harp would be a better one and since the name sounded right I bought myself a Hohner MS Meisterklasse harp . It turned out to be a leaky and badly setup harp with shiny covers.

the harmonica [3.] - why only one harp?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:45:28 +0100

People often ask me why I don't play a chromonica or play on different key bluesharps.

Some people are of the opinion that a harmonica is a harmonica no matter what type or model so you'd better choose "the right tool for the job".

I don't think of the different harmonicas that way. To me the diatonic harmonica is as different from the chrom as a trombone is from the trumpet. Both may use the same principle to generate sound but there is a world of difference in the way they are played and in the way they sound. And as far as chromatic harmonicas go, I have a short and blunt answer: I don't like them.

Don't get me wrong, I know some wonderfull chromatic players and they make beautifull music on the chromatic, but I am a diatonic harmonica player and I just don't like the feeling of playing a chromatic. I don't like the way the notes sound, I miss the directness of the diatonic and most of all I miss that roughness and instability

practice [4.] - expanding the blues

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:45:58 +0100

When first started playing I was trying to play blues like everybody who has just bought his first bluesharp. I learned to play a second position bluesscale, but since I didn't think that it would fit on all the chords of the 12 bar blues I thought that I would also have to be able to play the first and third position bluesscales.

By the time I found out that you could use the blues scale throughout the 12 bar progression I had already learned to play the other scales and it turned out to be a rather nice thing to be able to do.

So If you are a second position player and you are familiar with the second position blues scale and you want to expand your abilities on the diatonic harmonica, then it might be a good idea to start from the different bluesscale.

Example 1: 2nd position blues scale, key of G bottom octave, C-harp

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getting to school [5.] - entrance exam

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:25:28 +0100

The first time I did an entrance exam was on June 7th 2004, it was a bit of a mess. A few days after the exam I wrote the following to the harmonica lists, harp-l and harpon:

I am enrolled in a private school for jazz in Amsterdam.
All through the year I have been studying hard at my solfege, music theory and improvisational skills.
Although I like the school very much I have had a yearning to go to a "real" conservatory. Partly because I feel that that is a very good place to get to know people who are seriously playing jazz, partly because of the lessons and partly because I felt that getting admitted to the conservatory as a diatonic harmonica player would be an acknowledgement of the validity of my views on how the instrument can be played.

After years of thinking about doing the entrance exam I finally decided to go ahead and do it, so I sent in my application forms for 2 different conservatories.

The first was the conserva

getting to school [5.] - entrance exam II

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:58:54 +0200

The second entrance exam I took, was held on june 9th 2005. After it I again wrote a message to the harmonica lists harp-l and harpon:

A year has come and gone since the last time I wrote about entrance exams, a year in which I have studied hard. One year since I did the entrance exam, got accepted to and thrown out of the conservatory all in one afternoon. (Read the full story here)

Last year I wrote that I was going to go to school and be free from that lingering wish to go to a conservatory and for the main part of the year this was true. I was learning loads of new stuff. Things like writing and arranging polyphonic pieces. Arranging for the piano. I had lots of fun and was so swamped with homework that the idea of any other school being a "real school" was sort of ridiculous.

However as the end of the year drew closer and the entrance exams

getting to school [5.] - entrance exam III

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:53:34 +0200

Now why would I do a third entrance exam? I already was admitted to the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague. Did I want to go to another school, study abroad? No the third entrance exam was in the Hague just like the second one and in order to explain I have to go back to the second entrance exam I took.

After I was admitted for harmonica jazz there was a short discussion about what subject I would take instead of the compulsory classical technique lessons. Every trumpet player that studies jazz also has to study classical trumpet as a secondary subject. Since there is no one on staff that would be able to teach me classical harmonica technique it was decided that it would probably be beneficial for my breathing technique if I had singing lessons.

After the year started it appeared that everybody had forgotten about my singing lessons, so I asked the director about it and he told me I should make an appointment with my teacher Rac

at school [6.] - 4 more days

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:38:01 +0200

August 25th, 2005

Four more days before I start school. I keep on thinking about horrific things that could happen to me in these last few days that could still prevent me from going to start school next monday.
I have visions of me beeing hit by a bicycle taxi or falling into a canal and getting run over by a sightseeing boat.

Today will be an extra dangerous day because I will be running the risk of eating to much belgian chocolat as I am going to Antwerp to practice with my band "lokale vrede".
The band is a project that Ludo Beckers started. Whe have just formed and we haven't met all the members yet.
Chances are that tonight we will meet the lead whistler and the bassoon player.

at school [6.] - a letter

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:06:27 +0200

August 27, 2005
The last two days before the schoolyear starts. The tension has been rising for weeks now. I have been worried about the weirdest things and have been avoiding the bycicle-taxis like a bad disease.
The last weeks I have also been waiting for a sign of a life from said school. I was hoping to recieve a message about where I should go on that first day, what classes would start when. All I knew was that the year starts on august 29.
I was counting on them sending me something, a letter, email, anything.
Nothing came and again I had something to worry about. Did something go wrong? Did somebody find out about me playing harmonica and decided that they didn't want me in their school after all?

Finally, this morning, a letter arrived. All I could think as I stood there with the unopened envolope in my hand was; "we are sorry to inform you that due to policy changes you are no longer able to attend....".

But when I opend the lette

at school [6.] - the first day

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:07:21 +0200

August 29, 2005

It has finally arrived, the first day of school. It was not a busy day filled with difficult lessons, stern teachers and loads of homework. The day consisted mostly of speeches, a concert and champagne. A very relaxed start of the year. I met a few people I went to school with in Amsterdam and that are also starting in The Hague this year, including the piano player that caused me to do this years entrance exam. We did a short dance in the entrance hall of the school. I received my schedule for this year and I was happy to see that I only have to be at school 3 days in the week. That is good because it makes scheduling work and practice time a lot easier.

I was floating around the building. I wondered about the excitement I was feeling. It was a strangely pleasant double feeling.
I have been working on my harmonica playing for 10 years now. Working hard trying to reach the level that I want to reach. Reaching this poin

at school [6.] - introduction week

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:26:02 +0200

September 16, 2005

I haven't had much time to write this week as we have been in school every day from 10 in the morning till 10 at night. If I complained earlier at the lack of activity in the first week of school, then I must say that the school has made up for it this week. We have had a great week of workshops ranging from modern dance to composition to senegalese drumming. Each night a concert was held by teachers from the different departments.
I have also had my first harmonica lessons and I can tell you this; I am going to learn a lot this year and it is going to be bebop from start to end.
The first thing we worked on was a simple riff that I found very difficult to play. It is a line over a II V I progression wich includes a b9 and a #9. It turns out that I have a lot of trouble playing these notes. Apparently the major scale breathing patterns are well trained but notes that lay outside it cause me to have difficulty with producing a good full n

at school [6.] - the first week

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:03:14 +0200

September 7th, 2005
The first week of my studies has been interesting and fun, but almost completely unlike what I thought it would be like. I haven't played a single note yet, haven't clapped a rhythm or sung a solfege excersice.
Most of the classes uptill now have mainly been introductions to the subjects that will start later in the month and I must say it all sounds very exciting so I wish it would start. I managed to get my hands on my jazz history book so I can read and feel that I am getting some work done. What have I done then? Well, most of all I have met people. Fellow students from all over the world. A Swiss trumpet player, a Danish guitarist, a singer from Israel, a Canadian saxophonist, a German singer and a bass player from Indonesia. There are also a couple of dutch people and a few people that I haven't spoken yet, but they didn't sound very dutch when they spoke in class.

The classes in which some actual things

at school [6.] - vacation

Mon, 24 May 2010 01:41:30 +0200

The first exams are behind me and I passed them, although solfege wasn't easy and my teachers weren't too impressed I still sort of passed. I did get high marks in History of Jazz, so all is not lost.
Before the year started I expected to be able to write something new and interesting for the harmonica community every week or so. It turned out that I was so busy and stressed, that writing articles about what I was doing and learning was the last thing on my mind. My main focus was trying to get enough sleep in, because with work, classes and practicing most days were filled beyond capacity with activity.
Another thing that stopped me from writing about what I was learning was the fact that in many cases it took me a long time to find out enough about what I was and am learning to be able to write about it in a way that would be helpfull for other harmonica players.
I think I am have now reached a point where I can start doing that and so I will try to use this holliday to w

at school [6.] - another vacation

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:22:15 +0200

Again I have a short vacation. Last time I said I was going to try to write some stuff about what I had learned in the time I have been in school. Alas it turned out that work, sleep and catching up on my homework prevented me from doing so.
This time I won't even say I will try because I know that I won't have the time to do it.
I am working on a new version of this site. One that will work better in all browsers and is slightly more accesible. That might also make it easier for me to write stuff on it.

at school [6.] - the exams

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:55:59 +0200

The first of the end of year exams are upon me.
I have had 3 exams already and I am sorry to say that I have only passed 1. I failed my solfege exam. Reading music has never been my forte and solfege is definately a major problem. I did pass my rhythm exam although playing harmonica hasn't done wonders for my hand coordination. One exam I was counting on passing was piano or rather harmony at the piano. I thought I did okay, I made very few errors, but apparently I was much too slow at everything so I get a second chance in may.

Tomorrow I have 2 exams. The first transcribing the second analysis. The analysis is easy for me, it is a sort of musical mathematics and I am certain I will do well. The transcribing is what I have most difficulty with. If I could use a harmonica I would be alright, but we are not allowed to use any instrument. We just get a headset and a piece of paper and that is it. Oh and they tell you what key the piece is in. Everything else you have

at school [6.] - transcriptions

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:06:32 +0200

May 2006

Amazingly enough I might have passed my transcription exam. I had made a plan to tackle the transcription by first writing out the bassline and chords so I could relate the melody to those. Apparently it helped, I believe my teacher was even more surprised than I was.
The rest of the day we had theory exams which were easy. Just writing out chord voicings and analysing chord sequences.
Tomorrow I have my "requirements" exam. The first exam where I actually have to play harmonica. I have to be able to play scales, arpeggios turnarounds and II V patterns in 12 keys. And I have to know 20 standards by heart. We'll see.

at school [6.] - the last exam of the first year

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:15:49 +0200

June 18th, 2006

Tomorrow I have my very last exam of this school year. It is also the most important exam of the year: my harmonica exam. I already had a technical exam on the harmonica, which I passed with flying colors. Tommorow is the jazz exam. I am playing three songs: "Anthropology", "Whisper Not" and "Pennies From Heaven". On friday I had a short rehearsel with the band (bass drums and guitar) and I am feeling moderately confident. The band is teriffic so there are no worries there, it is mainly my own nerves that I am worried about. And worrying about them only makes them worse.

I did pass all other exams by the way. I had to retake 2 subjects, piano and solfege but I managed to scrape by on the second attempt.

June 19th, 2006

I passed the exam, I can stay in school for at least another year. The exam didn't go too well. I

at school [6.] - the 2nd year at school

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:54:05 +0200

I have started my second year of studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and I'm affraid that this year I will have even less time to put things up on my site. I started my second main subject - jazz singing - this year and it is going well. I enjoy singing a lot, and the effects on my harmonica playing are very good. I have more air, more control and am learning a lot of new things about expression that I wouldn't have if I hadn't been studying singing next to my harmonica studies.
My harmonica studies are going well too, believe it or not I spent the first couple of months of this year playing blues and only blues. At the moment I have lessons from Eric Vloeimans who is a wonderfull trumpet player and he has had me practicing blues in 12 keys very carefully. The work is starting to pay off and I am slowly starting to feel comfortable playing blues in any key.

The year is over again, it flew past like a runaway train. I have never been so bus

media [7.] - audio

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:18:08 +0200

Solo Harmonica Trio

Tinus Koorn - Harmonicas.

Money_Island

Trio

Tinus Koorn - Harmonica, Carlos Ema - Piano, Emmanuel Forster - Double Bass

Dexterity

Chi Chi

media [7.] - video

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:21:41 +0100

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media [7.] - photos

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:41:50 +0100

photo: Frouke Hoekstra

media [7.] - scrapple challenge

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:51:30 +0100

Richard Hunter once wrote that it is impossible to play everything in 12 keys on a single harp and make it sound exactly the same in every key.

I agree that this would be impossible, it�s impossible on almost any instrument.

However I do not feel that this is a reason not to approach the diatonic harmonica as a chromatic instrument.

If it were you would need a set of 12 chromatic harmonica's in order to play major triad arpeggios in all 12 keys.

In the same article Mr. Hunter said that if you wanted to prove that you could play something exactly the same in all 12 keys you should record "Scrapple from the Apple" in 12 keys and send it to him.

I don't think I will ever be able to make "Scrapple from the Apple" sound exactly the same in all 1

students [8.]

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:09:35 +0200

todo:

School

Solfege
Jazz geschiedenis
artist & society
HAP - Frans van Elsen mailen
Wouter mailen over Levy.

CD opname

nummers kiezen voor cd opname
nummers leren - melodie
nummers leren - schema
nummers leren - arrangement
nummers leren - solo van anderen kiezen
nummers leren - solos uitzoeken
muzikanten zoeken
opname gelegenheid zoeken
nummers oefenen op jamsessies

students [8.] - course examples

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:31:57 +0200

blues scale second position:

[Blues Scale]

agenda [9.]

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:49:40 +0200

For an accurate and up to date agenda please see:

tinuskoorn.nl

December 2009

Friday December 11th

Van der Pas & Beijersbergen

Cafe de Koepoort
Oosterstraat 2, Delft
22:00u

Tuesday December 8th 2008

Caf� Bebop

Concert

contact [10.]

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:52:31 +0200

Tinus Koorn
Doelenstraat 97
2611 NS Delft
tel: 06-44848775

web:www.tenhole.com
email:tinus@overblow.com

contact [10.] - address

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:45:51 +0100

Tinus Koorn

Maria Gouweloospoort 20

2611 JN Delft

The Netherlands

tel: 0031-(0)6-44848775

email: tinus@tenhole.com

contact [10.] - donations

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:26:02 +0200

If you have any money you don't really need anymore and would like to help a harmonica player pay his tuition, then please push the button below to make a donation. Any time I don't need to work to pay the rent I can use to improve my knowledge of the harmonica and how to play it. Eventually this knowledge will find its way to this website where you too will benefit from it.

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