RE: [Harp-L] Inverted notes on major scale at hole 7

["Joe Phillips" <jphillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's so that the blow/draw pattern remains the same for all scale
intervals as you ascend up the Richter-tuned harp. Otherwise, the
pattern would change at hole 7 when the next blow note would be D (on a
C harp) instead of C. Also, one of the key advantages to Richter tuning,
the accessibility of chords would be impaired. You'd no longer have the
major chord of the key under all the blow notes.

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rodrigo G. Reis
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:46 PM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] Inverted notes on major scale at hole 7

Hey guys,

Just another day, a guitarrist friend of mine who just got him self a
harmonica, asked me why on the major scale the sequence of blow-draw is
inverted to draw-blow at hole 7 and it goes inverted until the end (hole
10). I didn't have any musical based answer to it.

Do you guys have something on it?

Thanks in advance,

Rodrigo G. Reis


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