Re: [Harp-L] Finding the right key, in a noisy club



This always works....   Put your mic down.  Put your index finger in your
ear and take the harp you think might be the right one.  Play it
acoustically on the 2 draw and you will hear instantly if it sounds right.
The finger in your ear cuts out all the loudness and you will be able onto
hear the harp through the bones in your head.  I'm explaining it poorly but
it definitely works for me.

On Wednesday, May 13, 2015, Mike Wilbur <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hope so that would be " Key "
>
> Mike Wilbur
>
>
> > On May 13, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Robert Laughlin <
> harmonicaman1968@xxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > I remember, years ago, when I first thought,,"Why isn't there an app for
> the computer, like "google", that can find the name of a recording or even
> a live performance while in progress. Then someone invented it. Shazam.
> >
> > Amazing stuff, this pattern recognition software.
> >
> > Which brings up another question:
> >
> > Just thought I'd run this by the "l", in the name of streamlining the
> process of jumping in (by invitation, of course), with a live band.
> >
> > You know that moment, onstage, when you're not quite sure yet what key
> the band is playing in, or switching to, and there's just too much sound
> swamping your eardrums to easily, quickly grab the harp that fits. Even if
> someone shouts out the key to you, he may or may not have given you "the
> harp key", or perhaps just the actual key the band is playing in on that
> song, depending on whether he intended to do the interpolation for you, or
> just hand you the key sig they're actually playing in.
> >
> > It's at that moment that I often think,,there ought to be an "app" for
> this. I mean, there's already an app for your celphone that can pick out
> the name of the song, if it's melody is distinctive enough I would guess. I
> wonder if there's an app or a device that can "hear" the key being played,
> so as to avoid having to ask or fiddle with your harps while cupping your
> ear to hear it over the din.
> >
> > Eh?
> >
> > Robert the Inquisitive
> >
> >
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