Re: [Harp-L] Donald Black-- Keil Road ("doctored reeds"?)

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

It just means that Donald uses some altered tunings. By "doctored" he means re-tuned to a different note. 

I don't recall off the top of my head which alternate tunings he uses on Keil Road, but one that he invented, and is marketed in a tremolo version by Hohner as the Highlander, involves lowering Draw 3 and 7 (or their equivalents on a tremolo) by one semitone. So that on, say, an A harmonica, you would get a flatted 7th in the scale:

A B C D E F# G (instead of G#) A

and for chords you would get an A Major chord on the blow (as usual) but on the draw you would get a G major chord instead of an E7 chord. He feels that for pipe tunes (i.e., bagpipe) this works better than second position (using a D harmonica to get the same scale).

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Sat, 1/24/09, James boutilier <jamesb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: James boutilier <jamesb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Donald Black-- Keil Road ("doctored reeds"?)
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 4:22 PM

so, I've discovered the amazing music of Donald Black.

I thought all the music I was looking for was Irish... come to find out, the
droney, sad stuff is best heard in Scottish, at least the Scottish of
Black's 10-Hole Diatonic playing  (I'm not a fan of tremolo)

So, desiring to play a little, I've noticed something else -- the info says
it's a straight 10-Hole, BUT with "DOCTORED REEDS".

Does anyone have an inkling what this means?


Thanks for any assist.


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