[Harp-L] Seydel Richter chromatic

["Dave Payne Sr." <payneoutdoors@xxxxxxxxx>]

    Anybody tried this Richter-tuned chromatic Seydel has? Mine a C came in last week and i wanted to pass something along that has helped me a lot with it. It is tuned like a regular diatonic, except it has two extra holes. I could do some nice shuffles on it and stuff, and I could hit a nice cross harp one chord, then push the button in for G# chord accent. Otherwise, I still found myself playing it like a chromatic, no luck with cross harp. I retuned a couple of reeds on the slide in reedplate and it's much easier to play blues and stuff now. I tuned them from being one half step above the draw note to hit the missing notes I would usually bend to get.  I tuned the 2 draw from Ab to F#. All the others are still a half step sharp slide in, but now to do a 2 draw down from the G bend to F sharp, down to F, then hit the blow for the E, I do the two draw, push the slide in for F#, blow slide in for the F, blow for the E.
   On the three draw, I tuned the slide in reed from C  to Bb, so now it's three draw for the B, slide in draw for a Bb, slide in blow for Ab, blow for G. 
  I lost that G# chord, but I can run through the low octave much better now. 



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