RE: [Harp-L] Blow/Draw Switch at Hole 7

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

> Can someone explain to me why the Richter tuning pattern of blow/draw 
> switches at hole 7 on a diatonic?  And has anyone tried setting up a harp 
> so that there is no switchover (draw bends and overblows across the entire 
> harp)?
>
> Jonathan Metts


I know there's a good reason for it but it drives me nuts - not on the 
diatonic, which I play nearly all the time so my muscle memory is ingrained 
- but when I make the occasional switch to chromatic.  I'm all over the 
place then in the top octave.  If I could just tell my stupid brain that the 
pattern is identical to the octave below!   Either that or practise my 
scales on the chromatic a lot more...but I am getting old...