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

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

And what you might not know, James...was that Winslow was instrumental in  
bringing Donald to SPAH a few years ago and played onstage with him  and James 
Conway with other Irish/Scots music players (was Tony Eyers  there?) - it's 
Winslow's favourite type of music too :)
 
...I confess I didn't know all the players at the time (my first SPAH), I  
was just so thrilled to get to hear Mr. Black (us both being from  Glasgow)..
 
It was an absolute treat hearing this music.  It was rich and  
wonderful...and about as close to hearing that 'bagpipe-y drone' ...as one can  get. 
 
James Conway does a gorgeous version on YouTube which might perk up your  
ears.
 
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuAvj8WE0E_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuAvj8WE0E) 
 
 
...and here's Donald Playing The Cuckoo (from Keil Road) on a  diatonic and 
tremolo:
 
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7R3vZclR2M_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7R3vZclR2M) 
 
 
and on the Hohner Highlander
 
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQP9h3gF6g&feature=related_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQP9h3gF6g&feature=related) 
 
 
Elizabeth
 
"Message: 13
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:48:27 -0800 (PST)
From:  Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Donald  Black-- Keil Road ("doctored reeds"?)
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx, James boutilier  _jamesb@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
(mailto:jamesb@xxxxxxxxxxx) 

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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