Re: [Harp-L] Jean Jacque Milteau Sailer & Maid

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

It would help if you could provide a specific link rather than make people go and try to figure out which of about a dozen Youtube hits is the right one (assuming you're talking about Youtube).

Looking at the "Moscow" one, JJ switches from a standard diatonic in A to a tremolo in A. Judging from the look and sound of the instrument, it could very well be a Hohner single-sided Echo tremolo in A. The covers look like that model, the tremolo sounds like that type of tremolo, and I know JJ plays Echo harps.

Echo harps are tuned to the standard tuning used on diatonics, but he's not using the low octave, so that doesn't matter. I know another poster made this an issue, but it's not in most trad tremolo playing. Just like trad players of standard diatonic, trad tremolo players use the instrument the way it was designed: melody in middle and upper octaves, chordal accompaniment (if any) in the bottom octave.

Good-quality tremolos from manufacturers like Hohner, Suzuki, and Tombo can be expensive. However, melody-tuned tremolos (no missing notes) can be had quite cheaply, as there are several Chinese manufacturers who make them. They're not as robust or as big-sounding as the better instruments, but are nonetheless quite playable.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

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

--- On Wed, 11/25/09, BDavisonBAZ@xxxxxxx <BDavisonBAZ@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: BDavisonBAZ@xxxxxxx <BDavisonBAZ@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Jean Jacque Milteau Sailer & Maid
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 10:13 AM

Can any one advise me what the second harp used in JJM video 4  is?
Thanks Baz
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