Re: RE: [Harp-L] 5th position

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

> I don't know about the rest of the players out there, but I don't do
> too many tunes that are written in phrygian mode.  But I do play in
> 12th position on a couple of tunes, remembering to draw bend the 3
> and overblow the 6 to get the 4th notes and to draw bend the two
> hole to get the low octave tonic for the major scale (ionian mode).
>
> -tim
>
> Tim Moyer
> Working Man's Harps
> http://www.workingmansharps.com/

A small number of Irish tunes are in true Lydian mode, i.e. can be played in 
12th position without bending/overblowing.  All the ones I know I play on a 
low D harp, and the guitar men regard the tunes as being in G major!

Steve

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