Re: [Harp-L] Re: Half-tone harmonica

["Arthur Jennings" <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx>]

If the interval from C to D is called a "whole tone" (and it is) then it
seems logical (if a bit uncommon) for the interval from C to C# to be called
a "half tone".

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:37 AM, <MilwHarmonica@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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