Re: [Harp-L] Calling all double reed platers (Tremolo/Octave, etc) for The Inaugural Old Gnarly Cup

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave - 

Sounds wonderful and I'm glad to see double reed harps getting some attention in the land of green money (lots of tremolo in Canada, Europe, Asia, but very little in the USA).

That gnarly cup sounds like one of a kind. Will you award it again next year?

Will the Seydel Hochlandsklänge qualify? For those unfamiliar, this is a double reed harp that uses the second bank of reeds to play harmony notes instead of tremolo or octaves. It includes all sorts of wide harmony intervals and additional chords that you don't get on a regular diatonic.

For the tuning layout, see Page 34 at:

http://www.seydel1847.de/WebRoot/Seydel/Shops/Seydel/Images/downloads/SEYDEL_Katalog09.pdf

For sound samples, check out:

http://www.seydel1847.de/epages/Seydel.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Seydel/Products/23400

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

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

--- On Fri, 7/24/09, David Payne <dmatthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Double reeders, this year at the Elk River Harmonicas contest, we are starting a special tremolo contest as part of the Mid-Ohio Valley Harmonica Championship, which is noon, Sept. 19, at the Belleville Homecoming Grounds in Belleville, West Virginia, which is on West Virginia 68 between Ravenswood and Parkerburg. The prize is the Old Gnarly Cup, a unique trophy, which is made from an gnarly old Valencia Tremolo harmonica from the 1910s probably on an American Chestnut base. The base is pretty gnarly, it's mostly gnarly knots, is not perfectly square, but despite all that, looks nice. The winner gets the gnarly cup and a custom tremolo. 

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