Re:[Harp-L] Poor Man's Chord harp--Diatonic Diminished tuning

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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:12:22 -0700
From: "Gary Lehmann" <hqr@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Poor Man's Chord harp--Diatonic Diminished tuning

>Hi all-
>I just retuned an unsuspecting LO in C to a half-whole scale-so it's
>two diminished seventh arpeggios, one for draw, one for blow.
>
>I didn't see this tuning in Pat Missin's list-odd, since it gives 
>you a chromatic scale with the half step bends. And lots of fun to 
>jam on.
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:13:19 -0700
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>Here is the tuning:
>Hole	1_ 2_ 3_ 4_ 5_ 6_ 7_ 8_ 9_ 10
>Blow	Eb F# A_ C_ Eb F# C_ Eb F# C
>Draw	F_ G# B_ D_ F_ G# B_ D_ F_ G#
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>Gary Lehmann
>PS. I don't know about any standard diminished diatonic tuning,
>that's why I tried my hand at this one.
>G

Hello Gary,
  What you list is the tuning people generally mean when they talk about
"diminished tuning" for diatonic harmonica.  It is listed in Pat Missin's
"Altered States" TNGS005.TXT under 
"Diminished Tuning - AS 5.3c"
-- G.