Re: [Harp-L] Blazing fast Country chops

["Phil Gazell" <philgazell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, all of this is true. I only meant that Charlie plays Country tuned 
Harps as his first choice unless he wants a different sound or likes the way 
it lays on two harps ect....hhhmmmm..... I don't think Charlie used valves 
until relatively recently (last eight years or so)  However, I could be 
wrong about this. I see Charlie at the Nashville Predator Hockey games, 
(when they are not on strike) and he told me that he was using CT SP 20s 
almost all the time. He may have meant that was what he used live, since 
it's quite appear that he uses whatever WORKS when he's in the studio. He 
also said that Jimmy Gordon had sent him an altered tuning that he was 
having fun with.

PT Gazell
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www.ptgazell.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe and Cass Leone" <leone@xxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Blazing fast Country chops


> On Nov 29, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Winslow Yerxa wrote:
>
> > Actually, McCoy seems to have come to country-tuned instruments
> > rather gradually. Before that, he would use, say, an A-harp in E, and
> > an E-harp where he needed a D# or a B major chord. A fan heard this
> > and told him "I know how you do that - you tune Draw 5 up a
> > semitone!" That fan didn't know he'd just invented country tuning;
> > Charlie took the idea and put it to good use.
>
> > The "Wizard Winslow" is correct.
>  When Charlie was doing Londonderry Aire (Danny Boy) with 2 harps. I was 
> using 1. There's no mystery to this (so-called) country tuning. I 
> discovered the tuning in 1959 and I'm sure I wasn't the first. btw, I also 
> tune UP the 9th reed. So, in retrospect, getting to the bottom of ANY 
> legend can sometimes have surprising (and sometimes disappointing) 
> results.
> smo-joe
>
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