Re: [Harp-L] Theory, etc. - history of positions

[Murray Tyler <murray.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excuse my ignorance here.

To play second position or some other on a harp you need to bend a few notes to 
get a complete scale. Do they do this with an accordion, and how do they 
achieve it?

Regards

Murray

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> Who is credited for inventing cross harp?  i'm assuming it was some
> old time
> poor uneducated musician but how the hell did someone come up with
> the idea
> of playing a harp a 4th above the tonic key?

Once in a while I have heard the term "cross" or "crossed" used to
describe playing a diatonic accordion in other than the labeled key, so
the term may be borrowed from accordion - or maybe accordionists
borrowed from harp players - who knows? Cajun players of the one-row
diatonic accordion, whose ten buttons have the same note layout as the
ten holes of the diatonic harmonica, commonly play their instruments in
what we call second position. C is the most popular key of box, and
they usually play it in G.

Winslow
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