Steve Shaws altered paddy richter tuning was Re: [Harp-L] Re: Danny Boy

[Christopher B <s5gv2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There are two places in the first part (last syllable of "calling" and 
> "dying") that need the missing 6th if you're playing straight harp, and 
> one place in the second part near the end ("love").  Paddy Richter is a 
> whole tone up on 3-blow, not a semitone.  I'm a voice in the wilderness 
> here, but I tune up 2-draw instead of 3-blow.  You end up with the same 
> notes as the "usual" Paddy Richter.  Don't ask me why I've stuck with it 
> all these years but I have.   Tuning up 2-draw means you don't even have 
> to take the reedplate off.  I'm not claiming that as a good reason for 
> doing it my way, but it helps... ;-)

Hi All
    I tried Paddy Richter tuning for playing songs that need the 6th 
note in the lower octave but found that because I used the three blow 
and not the three draw when playing tunes that I had to relearn the
position of two notes, but if I tuned the three draw  up a tone I only 
needed to relearn the postition of one note. So it had that advantage, 
and with the convenience of not taking the harp apart to retune the two 
blow it's a very useful tuning for a couple of reasons
	Of course I got the idea off Steve Shaw's website, so thanks Steve for 
putting that idea out there.

Christopher Brunner