[Harp-L] Re: Solo-Tremolo-Single Hole?

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Rick -

Check out the Seydel Fanfare.  I think it is exactly  what you are looking for; plus it comes in several keys.  I got on in G that I use to play Tex-Mex accordion lines and it works great.

Gus Olmos

http://www.seydel1847.de/epages/Seydel.sf/en_GB/?ObjectID=126141


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> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:59:52 +1000
> From: "Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Solo-Tremolo-Single Hole?
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> Dear Reeders;
>                          I seem to recall something on harp-l a little while back about one of the manufacturers producing a tremolo that differed from previous models in that the blow and draw reeds were all played via one hole, rather than having to move, or use a large lip-aperture to shift from blow to draw and vice-versa.
>                         So that's the first part of my query.
>                         Next part is solo-tuned tremolos ie NOT the chord tuned setup where draw 2 and blow 3 are the same, but holes 1-4 being the same setup as the middle octave on a diatonic or the setup on the chromatic (but probably not with the repeated first positon keynote)
>                         What I'd like, is a harp that combines the single hole tremolo setup with solo tuning, but I may be being too hopeful.
>                         I want this for a specific purpose, which is to play on some African Hi-life type stuff, sounding deliberately un-sophisticated harmonically, but rhythmically and melodically interesting (I hope)
> with the crazy fairground sound of the trem.
>                        The standard chord tuned trem. just doesn't work for me.
>                        My inspiration for this endeavour is the late Roy Richards, of Jamaica, whose playing I've always dug.
>                        OK, I'm doing my world-music-guy alchemist thing here; but I think it would sound good.
> RD