[Harp-L] Re: The beatings will continue untill tuning improves

[Glenn and Debbie Woodhouse <gwoodhouse40@xxxxxxx>]

I'm with you Wendell, I love that Clarke beating sound.  William Clarke's chromatic style has had a real influence on my diatonic playing.  Wether he set the harps up that way on purpose or they just migrated to it, it is the tuning that provides the beating.  I have a couple of harps that give me a similar, and pleasant beating, on select high octaves ("pleasantness is in the ear of the harpholder!").  I've been getting into doing my own tuning and I would hate to tune this out of those harps for the stuff I'm playing with my band.  If I get an unpleasant beating I tune it out.  I'll have to start documenting the tuning differences that provide "good" beating so that I may be able to reproduce it in the future.  If I get some of this good beating tuning data next time I'm tuning harps I'll send it out to the list.

 

Glenn

The ColdRail Blues Band

www.ColdRail.com


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> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:25:49 -0500
> From: "Wendell Jenkins" <bacon-fat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] The beatings will continue untill tuning improves
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> I understand, when tuning a harmonica it's best to avoid beating of octaves. 
> But I really like the way William Clarke uses a beating effect in his stuff. 
> Is it the tuning, or the technique, bending one side of the octave ?
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