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

[Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx>]

This tuning is not the only one--but it is popular.
Solo tuning is the arrangement of tones from holes 4 to 7, and this is the
tuning of the chromatic harmonica--that's why there are usually two C notes
next to each other. I say usually because I change that--I retune what would
have been hole 7 on a diatonic to | Bb b | so there is no breath shift. This
is called bebop tuning.
I retune harmonicas routinely, but still retain the breath shift on some
tunings--guess I am just used to it by now.
However, there are tunings that do not have a shift--circular is one--if you
start a C harmonica on blow G, it would alternate notes, so the next G would
be a draw note on hole 4, and the G above that would be blow 8. The C notes
would be on draw 2, blow 6 and draw 9.
I like the IV6/V6 tuning, which Brendan Power claims credit for. A C
harmonica would start on F--and the chords would be F6 and G6. No breath
shift.
I have a tuning that is circular on the bottom, and the breath shift happens
at hole 8.
As Brendan himself told me, there are lots of possibillities.
G
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Rodrigo G. Reis <rodrigogreis@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>