Re: [Harp-L] The "Perfect" Fusion of Chromatic and Diatonic?

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

.........or maybe 'whole tone/augmented' because that gives four
repeating patterns for twelve keys (three notes in an augmented chord)
while diminished yields only three (four notes in a diminished chord) ie
3 X 4 & vice-versa) =12.
             Hell; who wants LESS possibilities? Gimme more I say...
RD


>>> "Mox GOWLAND" <mox.g@xxxxxxxxx> 30/11/2007 3:55 >>>
d.flendrich wrote in reference to cicular tuning :

>I thought one of the principle attractions of the circular tuning was

that you could play in all keys on a single harmonica with only a 
limited number of patterns (4?) required.  Is the point of having all 
12 keys so you have the diatonic chords present?  <

The note layout that you are thinking of is called 
"diminished tuning" 

(briefly favoured by Ludo Beckers 
http://www.overblow.com/ludo/ )

There is an indepth explanation at 

http://www.angelfire.com/music/HarpOn/ 

Scroll down on the left  till 
"Pat's Musings"
then clique on 
"diminished"

>If you set up the harmonica so that adjacent notes are a three
semitones apart you arrive at a diminished tuning. These layouts have
been patented by both Salvitz/Beauregard (US pat# 5166461) and Dr. John
Yeadon (UK pat #2259802) and can take several different forms......... <


Hope this helps

mÃx



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