[Harp-L] Fwd: [HarpTalk] Chromatic Harp?

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, SJM <SJMAGRI@xxxx> wrote:
 you call the harmonicas with the buttons on the side? 

Chromatic harmonica, sometimes called chromonica.

>those are to sound accidentals? 

One button. It raises the pitch of the neitre instrument by one 
semitone. This produces any notes not part of the basic scale of the 
instrument, plus some duplications.

>also, can that harp play in all keys?

Yes.

>Who are some really good players of this harp? 

here a few off the top of my head

===Classical

Larry Adler
Tommy Reilly
Robert Bonfiglio
John Sebastian, Sr.
Douglas Tate
George Fields
among others

===jazz

Toots Thielemans
Mike Turk
William Galison
Hendrik Meurkens
Hermine Deurloo
Olivier Ker-Ourio
Damien Masterson
Charles Leighton
Pete Pedersen
Bill Barrett
among others

==popular music

Stevie Wonder
Larry Adler
Toots Thielemans
Leo Diamond
George Fields (Moon River theme)
Jerry Murad (Harmonicats)
Eddy Manson
Tommy Morgan (Beach Boys, TV and movie soundtracks)
Borrah Minevich Harmonica Rascals
among others

==Blues (usually diatonic players who double on chromatic)

Little Walter
George Smith
Rod Piazza
Kim Wilson
Mark Hummel
Dennis Gruenling
among many others

==Country

Jimmie Riddle (Roy Acuff)

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Winslow