[Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 108, Issue 23

[David Fairweather <dmf273@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've heard Roger play Runaway on ONE diatonic in Fourkey tuning,  And
without the tonal disparities that come from trying to play it all on one
Richter harp.   Maybe someday more people will add Fourkey diatonics to
their arsenal.  The right tool for the right job!




> Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Runaway - Bonnie Raitt
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> Here's a quote from Paul Butterfield when Freebo was commenting how cool
> it was that Norton used four different harps on "Runaway" one night at a
> live gig.
> "tell him to give me a call when he can do it all on the same harp".
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> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:54:01 -0500
> From: Roger Myerson <rmyerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Runaway - Bonnie Raitt
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> Runaway lays so beautifully on a fourkey-tuned harmonica that it
> sometimes feels like Del Shannon wrote it for this instrument!  I play
> it on an Ab fourkey harp, which can play the Ab, Eb, Bb, and F major
> keys without bending.  But the key of F is played mostly on the blow
> notes, and the key of Ab is played mostly on the draw notes.  So the key
> change that others see as a need to switch instruments is, for a fourkey
> player, largely a shift from blows to draws.
> But I admit that, in the organ-solo section, I simplify the sixteenth
> notes down to eighth notes.
> -Roger
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> http://4keyharps.wordpress.com/
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> On 8/12/2012 7:25 AM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:29:56 -0500
> > From: Doug Schroer<dougharps@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Runaway - Bonnie Raitt
> > To: Harp-l for posting<harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> > It can be played on one harp (an F) as Winslow suggested.  It is also
> worth
> > exploring with 4 harps (F, Eb, Db, and C), too, just for the experience.
> > ...
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