Re: RE: [Harp-L] Re: was Danny Boy now Paddy

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Shaw wrote:
> I posted a message to Harp-L in April of last year about yet 
> another way of retuning a 10-hole harp to avoid the missing-
> note problems in the low octave.  The idea comes from Jean 
> Sabot, a fabulous harmonica player of traditional music from 
> Brittany in France - he has a website 
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jsabot/accueilan.htm 
> with the details of his scheme, which he calls "Major tuning - 
> Ionian mode."  

Personally, I'm not a big fan of any tuning that has repeated notes, 
and even moreso when they are adjacent and the same breath direction.  
This is my complaint about solo tuning (though I can certainly 
understand the logic behind having a regular pattern that repeats in 
each octave).  The benefit, of course, is chording, but now we're 
starting to get into stylistic preferences.  

-tim