Fw: Re: [Harp-L] Slidemeister

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just tried going to http://www.slidemeister.com/forums/ and it worked.

Winslow Yerxa

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

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--- On Sat, 6/26/10, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Slidemeister
To: "harp-l harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010, 9:13 AM

Slidemeister's front end got hacked, but you could still get to the forums by going there directly. I know that AJ and Garry were working to get it back up, but now it's totally down until I guess we hear from them.

Even light playing will depress pitch some. Does you chromatic sound 
sharp relative to the band when you play 
amplified? If not, then Bill was probably right. 

I tune my chromatics to A442. I arrived at this by experiment, and others seems to concur. However, I don't know what Bill did. Can you play softly into a tuner that can be set to a range of A440, A 
441, etc.? Maybe you can determine what he used.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

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

Resident expert at bluesharmonica.com

Harmonica instructor, jazzschool.com

Columnist, harmonicasessions.com

--- On Sat, 6/26/10, Bob Cohen <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Bob Cohen <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Slidemeister
To: "harp-l harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010, 8:02 AM

Just tried to look at slidemeister. The site is down.  Anyone know what's up?  My question was about chromatic tuning.  Before his passing Bill Romel did his magic on a Toot's hard bopper of mine. He tuned all the reeds sharp saying that the pitch would come down when I played at concert volume.  I play amplified so I don't need to blow so hard to get heard.  How do others have their chroms tuned?

Bob