[Harp-L] Re: Half-tone harmonica



Hello, Harp-L members.
 
In western music (indigenous music of Europe, the Americas, Australia,  
Russia, popular music scales are based on a 12-tone music scale (12 equally  
distant notes within an octave ).
 
The numeric distance from one tone to the next nearest tone in the 12 tone  
(chromatic) scale is called an interval (distance) of a half step.
 
Musicians, often erroneously interchange the use of the words " half tone,"  
or "half note," when they actually intend to say "half step."
 
It's a guess that Borrah Minevitch meant to say, "half-step harmonica,"  
instead of "half-tone harmonica."
 
The half-step harmonica is also known as a chromatic harmonica. When  Borrah 
referred to the half-tone harmonica, he probably meant the slide  chromatic 
harmonica.
 
Other chromatic (12 equidistant scale notes per octave) harmonicas include  
the 2-deck bass harps, the 
glissando harps (slideless chromatics), chromatic pitch pipes and 48-chord  
harmonicas.
 
Happy New Year
 
John Broecker
 
 
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