Re: [Harp-L] 2nd position

["TedvA" <knuppel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh yes of course. Rob Paparozzi is right!
That's the 4th thing you can do. So now you have:
- you don't (natural 7 is not in blues-scale anyways)
- 5 overblow (pretty hard)
- 6 blowbend (on a half-valved harp)
- raise your 5 draw (by tuning it a half step up or by buying a 
Country-tuned harp)

Although it is the correct answer, I know it's a bit short. Fact is every 
diatonic harp-player knows about it and deals with it the best way he or she 
can. If you're able to do a quick overblow on 5 great. But a lot of players 
just sort of avoid it and play around it. Kind of  'make it sound like a 
small improvisation' or alteration of the basic melody.
And if it's really really really important to hit that note, maybe it's 
better to switch to another position after all (1st?). Or try playing that 
part of the melody through bends in the higher or lower register of the 2nd 
position harp.

Good luck & Cheers
Bart


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TedvA" <knuppel@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "John Taylor" <johnatjumpjiveandswing@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] 2nd position


> Ah, that's very easy to answer:
> I think there are 3 things you can do to play the C# in 2nd position:
>  Cheers
> Bart
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Taylor" <johnatjumpjiveandswing@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 8:19 PM
> Subject: [Harp-L] 2nd position
>
>
> Hello to all,
>                 one thing is puzzling me about 2nd pos. playing is that as 
> you change keys inevitably you seem to need
>                 to create a bent note on hole 5 draw yet it will only 
> allow a shallow bend to be created, how do players
>                 get round this? for example if you try to play 2nd pos D 
> on a G harp where do you find your C# which
>                 would occur at the 5th hole draw.
>
>                 Thanking you all in advance --------------- John