Re: [Harp-L] Hohner Orchester

[Cara Cooke <cyberharp@xxxxxxxxx>]

It sounds like you did a pretty fair job of explaining things, Otto.
 Timm: The harmonic minor scale can be a lot of fun if you enjoy eastern or 
eastern European music. Sometimes it is also fun to play a tune on a 
harmonic minor that should be played on a major -- the same noting pattern, 
but, of course, the scale is different so it is going to sound wierd. For 
demonstration purposes between the scales, for example, you could play "Mary 
Had a Little Lamb" on the same named major keyed harmonica, then play the 
same note pattern on the harmonic minor. It will sound a little wierd, but 
that is the fun.
 There are a couple of relatively common tunes that may work well for you on 
the harmonic minor harmonica: "Hava Nagila" and Brahms' "Hungarian Rhapsody" 
(number 5, if memory serves). If you are showing your harmonica collection 
to kids, the "Welcome to Hogwarts" tune from the 3rd "Harry Potter" movie 
might be a good tune to learn. Otherwise, just toy around with the scale on 
the harmonica until patterns of notes give you clues to other parts of songs 
that you may want to try.
 Have fun!!
 Cara

 On 5/10/05, funharp@xxxxxx <funharp@xxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> Timm,
> 
> Timm schrieb:
> > I believe that Moll means something about its minor tuning?
> 
> Not quite. Moll is the german name for minor. It says nothing about what
> minor scale / tuning it is. The Hohner Orchester was tuned to harmonic
> minor, so your C - moll harp is tuned:
> 
> C Eb G C Eb G C Eb G C
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> D G B D F Ab B D F Ab
> 
> the C harmonic minor scale is C - D - Eb - F - G - Ab - B - C. There are
> half steps between the 2nd and the 3rd, the 5th and the 6th and also
> between the 7th and the 8th.
> 
> the C natural minor scale is C - D - Eb - F - G - Ab - Bb - C. There are
> two half steps between the 2nd and the 3rd and between the 5th and the
> 6th.
> So a C - natural minor harp looks like that:
> 
> C Eb G C Eb G C Eb G C
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> D G Bb D F Ab Bb D F Ab
> 
> Natural minor is the aeolian mode of Eb - major or you can say the
> parallel minor key to Eb - major.
> 
> > > there are 2 types of minor keyed harmonicas,
> > > Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor. I would like to understand the 
> difference. I
> > > also would like to know how to use them and where.
> 
> Harmonic minor is good for playing eastern / oriental music. With a
> natural minor harp you can play minor blues in 2nd position quite well.
> But I'll give up here and hand it over to the more experienced players
> on this list, who can explain it also with a much better English than I
> am able to...
> 
> I hope this was a little bit of help for you,
> 
> Otto
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