RE: Fwd: [Harp-L] Paddy Richter

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

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> This is also pretty easy to just retune for yourself.  Its only one
> reed, although it is a blow reed (meaning you have to remove the
> plate), and you do have to move it a wholetone.
>
> This is the tuning I play primarily, and it's great for me.  You
> lose the I blow chord, and the 3-6 blow octave, but having that
> natural A is worth it for me and the material I play.
>
> -tim


Paddy is the only tuning I use for 10-hole harps, but I achieve it by tuning 
up the 2-draw rather than the 3-blow.  I really have no other good reason 
for doing it other than the fact that I've always done it and I'm used to 
it.  I don't need the lost draw chord as I play single notes nearly all the 
time.  You don't have to take the plates off to do it my way!

Steve