[Harp-L] Re: who's going to SPAH

[Roger Myerson <myerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I'm a late responder on the subject of "who's going to SPAH" 
because I've been traveling this week.  But in a summer of too much 
travel, the one trip that I have been most looking forward to is SPAH.  
It'll be my first.
I've been playing harmonica off and on for over 40 years.  As one who 
had difficulty bending, I usually played a chromatics, but I still 
valued the small size of the diatonic that you can cradle in your 
hands.  This let me to start exploring alternative tunings, first Paddy 
Richter, and then fourkey tuning.   Now, over the past two years, I have 
really enjoyed learning new kinds of music with fourkey harps.  I very 
much look forward to sharing with David Fairweather the session on this 
tuning that blends chromatic and diatonic, on Saturday at SPAH.
-Roger

On 7/22/2011 1:50 PM, Jim Hanks wrote:

> *HATE* I'm going to miss this. I have a business trip 16-18Aug to 
> Virginia Beach. If it's not too much trouble, can y'all just move this 
> SPAH thing back a week? :-)
> > On 7/22/2011 1:44 PM,  David Fairweather <dmf273@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > I will be presenting an "Introduction to Fourkey" seminar together 
> > with Prof. Roger Myerson on
> >  Saturday afternoon. 

On 7/25/2011 10:35 AM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:57 -0700
> From: David Fairweather<dmf273@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Fourkey at SPAH
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> I agree with just about everything Steve Baker said  in his recent post
> about using altered tunings to avoid "altered" notes.   As I get deeper into
> Fourkey tuning,  which has 10 out of 12 notes in the chromatic scale
> available as unbent "natural" notes,  I find myself using the Fourkey
> positions where those two bent notes fall where I want them to be.   I will
> be demonstrating at SPAH why I like 4th position on the Fourkey.  In 4th
> Position Fourkey, the only bent notes are the flatted 5th and the flatted
> 9th, and  those usually sound pretty good as bends.   But what if you want a
> note to bend and it's not the flat 5 or the flat 9?   Come to my SPAH
> demonstration and find out!

--
Roger B. Myerson, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-834-9071, Fax: 773-702-8490
http://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/