RE: ALTERED TUNING DIATONICS

[Jack Ely <IMS_ELY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Hi Danny,
    
    I'm sure you are also aware that Bernie Bray experimented with windsavers. 
    I once  heard him (at a SPAH convention, mid-70's) play a flawless 
    chromatic scale on a 5 hole Little Lady. After which he revealed that he 
    had put windsavers on it.
    
    Was it Bernie or Stagg that put two harmonettas together? Talk about a 
    nightmare harmonica project.
    
    Also - A thank you to whomever it was that posted a while back that Pete 
    Pedersen has the 64 chromatic which Bernie converted to a bass. (I think 
    he lowered each reed an octave by adding solder. Actually, I think he cut 
    the reed plate and shifted it to the right and then added the low octave 
    from another reed plate - thus he only had to retune the low octave). 
    Anyway, I practically drove myself nuts trying to figure out how Pete got 
    that low chugging rhythm on his recording of Rocky Top (Pete & Jim - Music 
    And Memories). It sounded like a 64 at times but it was much too low - I 
    couldn't duplicate it. When I read the post about Pete having the bass 64, 
    it hit me ~BOING~ (my brain actually makes that sound whenever a thought 
    hits me) so that's how he does it! 
    
    -Jack