Re: [Harp-L] New Richard Hunter piece at Broadjam.com

[Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Blues for Charlie" is recorded on a Dorian-tuned harp played in 5th 
position. In other words, standard tuning with draw 3 and draw 7 tuned 
down 1/2 step, with blow 2 (e on a C harp) as the tonic note.  So in 
this case the 5th degree of the scale is flatted.  It's a sound with a 
lot of emotion, mostly sad.

Thanks, RH

Rick Dempster wrote:
> Sorry Brad, for the cross post; I forgot to hit 'reply to all':
> Richard;
>               That's a mighty sound. By the way, I'm curious about
> 'Blues for Charlie' (is that McCoy, Parker or..?) which I thought was
> very good. Without conducting a prac. experiment, my ears suggest that
> this is performed on a melodic minor tuned harp; Yes?
> RD
>
>
> > > > Bradford Trainham <btrainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 15/05/2007 17:01:55
> C Minor? 
> An F diatonic, or are you playing a chromatic? 
> With the octave doubler, I'm guessing if you wanted, you could execute
> that one live, right? 
> I enjoyed this one for its feel.  It also facilitates my giving myself
> permission to pursue a secret notion of mine, to wit, a rotary patch
> I'm still perfecting with my M-Audio Blackbox processor.  Every once
> in a while, I thought I heard either a tremolo or rotary setting
> applied to your harp, but on listening again, I think I realized it
> was your hand doing that.
> Thank you again for putting that up there.  It gives the more
> "recently baptized" among us a lot of good food for thought. 
> Will there be a third act of "being free"?
> Brad Trainham
>  
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 23:19:18 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> >  i just uploaded a new recording to my site at Broadjam.com.  It's a
>
> > piece of slow, burning funk titled "In the Night," heavily influenced
> by 
> > Junior Walker.  The harp plays the role of the big Texas tenor sax, of
>
> > course.  The recording can be found at:
> > http://www.broadjam.com/rhunter 
> >
> > The piece includes two harmonica lines, both recorded with an Audix 
> > Fireball mic through a Digitech RP-200. Both the RP-200 sounds on the
>
> > recording are from my patch set for the Audix Fireball.  The first
> sound 
> > is the "Twdhrd" overdriven tweed amp patch that leads off my patch
> set; 
> > the second is the "Twd-8" patch that features another tweed amp model
>
> > with a low octave doubler effect.  I recorded the harp part first with
>
> > the second patch, then played the part again with the first patch to 
> > give it more "cut."  (Now that's old school.) The sound is, like, big.
>
> > Very big.
> >
> > Comments on "In the Night" are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks and regards, Richard Hunter
> > hunterharp.com
> > latest mp3s always at http://broadjam.com/rhunter 
> >
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