Re: [Harp-L] The Forkord Turnaround

[Arnold Cazemier <a.cazemier@xxxxxx>]

Last year I talked to Seydel about my idea, they already mentioned the
concept of the Schaman, as two lower half bluesharps next to each other
instead of opposing each other.

The extra seventh in the blow part is nice, but it also has disadvantages:

On the Forkord Turnaround you can still play blues in two keys up two the
fifth hole (like a Seydel Big Six Blues minus one hole), like you are used
to. Playing in F on the B-flat part, you also have the octave in draw hole
"six", that is the F of the C part, you can bend it a little. You can hear
this F at the end of "Muss I Denn", second song in the Youtube.

Also, in the upper range of the Forkord Turnaround you have some
interesting (chromatic) melodic possibilities that the Schaman lacks: 
F E E-flat D D-flat (bent note), all in the middle two holes.

When I play the Forkord Turnaround in C or G, I keep the C-part to the
left, and vice versa, hence "Turnaround".

You can build the FT yourself, (the Seydel Session Steel is suitable, then
you 'll have steel reeds, like the Schaman) and choose which key you
prefer.

What did you pay for your Schaman?


Arnold



Op Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:34:53 -0400 (EDT) schreef philharpn@xxxxxxx:

>You have just re-invented the Seydel-Schaman (aka Harmonica MD chord harmonica)! marketed by Seydel. It is brainchild of John P. Schaman, MD. 
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>The Seydel debuted at 2011 SPAH and Paul Davies bought the first one. I also bought one (don't know what number customer I was). 
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>The Seydel-Schaman 10-hole harmonica was designed to encourage pulmonary patients to use the harmonica by offering four major chords with a 7th in the 5th hole so they could play interesting chordal patterns. See Paul Davies' video for a demonstration.
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>The Seydel-Schaman is set up with half F harp/ C harp  and half G harp/ D harp. 
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>The main difference is that a 7th is added to each octave major chord: FACF + Eb / CEGC = Bb and GBDG + F/ D F# AD + C. 
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>Blow Left five holes: F major + F7  
>Draw left five hole C major + 7th
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>Blow right five holes G major + 7th
>Draw right five holes D major + 7th.
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>The advantage of the Seydel-Schaman is that is offers four major chords and four 7th chords. There is also a 3/8-inch blank between the left five holes and right five holes making it easy to play one side or the other.
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>I don't know if anybody else has come up with this chord tuning scheme over the years.  This tuning is similar to the bebop tuning used on chromatics whereby one of the double Cs is replaced with a Bb.
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>Phil Lloyd