Re: [Harp-L] challenged by Chromatic

["Vern Smith" <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

On the diatonic, you are accustomed to blocking only two holes. On the 
chromatic, you must block three holes.  The chromatic holes are also farther 
apart.  An octave is 27 mm wide on a diatonic and 44 mm wide on a chromatic.
If you are playing Cs, the chromatic can fool you into thinking that you 
have a true octave when you are playing holes 1 & 4, 5 & 8, or 9 & 12 and 
only blocking two holes. Practice on DEFGAB until you get the feel for it.

Open wide, push that big old chromatic deeper into your mouth, relax your 
tongue, and..............smile!

Vern
Visit my harmonica website www.Hands-Free-Chromatic.7p.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "samblancato" <samblancato@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:26 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] challenged by Chromatic


> After following a recent thread on chromatics, I wanted to post about what 
> I
> am finding most frustrating right now - tongue-blocking octaves.  I am a 
> TB
> diatonic player; I play TB in about 80% of my playing.  But when I try to 
> do
> octaves on the chromatic I'm flummoxed.  I just can't make a tight fit, 
> let
> alone even get clean octaves.  So much of what I want to do is in octaves;
> it just doesn't sound right to my ear without those fat octave tones.
>
>
>
> Sam Blancato, Pittsburgh
>
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