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

[Bobbie Giordano <bogio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/18/2006 7:34:26 PM, Steve Shaw (moorcot@xxxxxxx) 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."  To cut a long story
> short you
> end up with a 10-hole harp which encompasses two and a half full octaves
> with no missing notes.

I remember that; still have it!  :)  But, here is the Archives link:
http://harp-l.org/mailman/htdig/harp-l/2005-April/msg01091.html

Thanks again,
Bobbie