[Harp-L] Re: Smo Joe/Country/Major 7th tuning

[Steve Baker <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow wrote:

<One thing that nobody except me seems to mention regarding Country  
tuning when used in second position: it also gives you al three major  
chords in second position as full three-note (or more) chords:>

Hey Winslow, I published that information in The Harp Handbook in  
1990. And all these years I'd thought that you'd read it! I also  
would like to point out that this tuning is brilliant for 5th  
position, that would be Am and Bm in the keys F & G which Paul  
mentioned, which most conveniently are the parallel minor keys to the  
major keys found in 2nd position, opening up a whole range of tunes  
to the curious player which would be tough on standard tuning

Steve Baker
www.stevebaker.de
www.bluesculture.com