Re: [Harp-L] Question for position guys

[John Kerkhoven <solo_danswer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fm on an Eb harp would be third position. Like Dm on a C harp.

John

> I've never been much on positions, although I can figure out 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th easy enough. Like one a short while back at the Huntington Harmonica club, they called a song in F minor and I wound up playing a D chromatic with the button pushed in the entire time, so that would have been transforming the chromatic to an Eb chromatic and playing 5th position on it. 
> But to get that, I was thinking about chords, thinking that if I pushed the button it, I'd have an F minor chord, then I could play in F minor. Now, after I started playing it, I figured out that was 5th position I was doing. 
> So, I came across a recording of me back when I was still in school. The song was Em. I was playing an A harmonica.  
> 
> What position is that? 
>  
> David Payne
> www.elkriverharmonicas.com