Re: [Harp-L] Re: What about a repertoire for the Melody Maker

[fjm <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Moyer quoted me as saying,

> fjm wrote:
> The Melody Maker tuning is my least favourite of the 
> alternate tunings. 

What's missing is the rest of the paragraph, the end of which I'll
append now. *I recently decided to try playing Somewhere Over the
Rainbow using the melody maker tuning and I really like it.  It took me
a bit to wrap my mind around it.*

I guess what I was trying to say is it's not like the SBS tuning or a
harmonic minor or natural minor tuned harmonica.  It wasn't intuitive
for me and I don't think it's intuitive for a lot of people who start
out on the 10 hole diatonic harmonica.  Nothing wrong with that but I
sure couldn't just pick one up and figure out what to do with it.  Even
the major 7th tuned harmonicas are pretty easy to just play. fjm