Re: harp-l-digest V11 #79

["Keith Freeman" <keith.freeman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>   Music interest - Jazz, Swamp Blues, Folk, Pop, Classical. I was
>   going =
> to post a list of artists, but it is 314 names.
>   I played clarinet for 4 years and then switched to Double Bass which
>   I =
> kept up with for 6. Part of that was in a full orchestra and part in a
> = jazz band.
My guess is that, with your experience on other instruments, you would find a diatonic, 
with the notes F and A missing from the bottom octave, the note B missing from the top 
octave and the two middle octaves laid out differently (not to mention the absence of 
any chromatic notes, obviously) pretty frustrating, compared to a chro which has all 12 
notes in all three octaves and the layout of each octave is the same.

There's no doubt a diatonic is great for playing blues, though: being so small you can 
use cupping techniques to modify the sound (wah-wah effects etc.) and the fact you 
have to bend some notes to get them at all adds to the bluesiness.

- -Keith