Re: [Harp-L] Little Lady harps etc.

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have, a couple of times, used the Big Six onstage when we play Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (I think that's the song title). I like the sound of it and I like the way it plays better than lots of other harps. I used it for entertainment value a couple weeks ago when a friend got me up to play  and started trading licks. When I needed to play something that would be above hole six on a regular 10-holer, I just did a little "air-harp" and pretended to play past the end of the Big Six. But this is a very nice harmonica.
Steve Webb in Minnesota

---- David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> This is a little bigger than a Little Lady, but I ought to mention the Big Six. It plays like a real harp, actually quite a bit better than most, it's a short-slot C, so it plays like a D and the steel reeds extend its life. It's tuned either like holes 1-6 on a Richter or 4-9 on a Low C.
>  
> I once got a prewar Seydel Bandmaster (the one with the megaphones) Little Lady size harp that was a FIVE hole, those extra two notes make a lot more songs possible because you always run out of holes on the four hole.. It was a great idea, wish it had not been discontinued.
> 
> Dave 
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> From: EVedock <evedock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:29:11 AM
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> Are there differenty tuned tiny harps? If so.  Which one would be the best for a farely accomplished long-time player of the ten hole harps? Are they all layed out to play an octave or are there some modals that have a note layout like the first four holes of a ten hole diatonic? Enlighten me please.  Ed    
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