Re: [Harp-L] Blazing fast Country chops - and altered tunings



I don't know anything about the tuning other than that he said he "really needed to pay attention when he was playing it." Of course, even one note different in my case could cause a "Long and Embarrassing National Nightmare." In any event that conversation took place between periods at a hockey game, which had more of our attention than harmonicas.

PT Gazell
----- Original Message ----- From: "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:19 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Blazing fast Country chops - and altered tunings




--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Phil Gazell" <philgazell@xxxx> wrote: <snip> 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.

======Winslow:

Ah, well, you have it from the horse's mouth. It certainly makes
sense. I've been playing around with CT for the last several months
and finding all sorts of cool things that it can do chordally,
especially with wide split intervals. Putting it in just tuning makes
the chords absolutely huge.

======P.T.:

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.

======Winslow:

I wonder if it's the same one Jimmy gave me a couple of years ago.
That's my other favorite alternate tuning; I call it Jimmy Gordon's
Maple Sugar tuning. It's like having a D-harp in the first six holes
and an A-harp on the top. Almost identical to my so-called
combination tuning but with one tiny difference that makes a huge
impact (he came up with it independently and owes nothing to me).
Jimmy designed it for second/first (second position in the bottom and
first up top), but I prefer to play it in first/twelfth, though I'm
starting to explore fifth/fourth as well.

Winslow



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