Re: [Harp-L] 12-hole fourkey harmonicas available from Seydel



Hey Roger, have you actually tried plugging it in to the Configurator? You pick a reed for each hole based on whatever reeds are available. Sometimes you can try to plug something in and you'll get one or more holes where the pitch you want isn't possible for that hole. They put a lot of other tunings in there for the Solist Pro 12 and they have fourkey on other models, so I'm thinking there may be a reason they don't have fourkey on that one.
 
David Payne
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 From: Roger Myerson <rmyerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 10:48 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] 12-hole fourkey harmonicas available from Seydel
 
Seydel recently introduced a new line of 12-hole harmonicas with steel reeds, the Soloist Pro 12 Steel harmonicas.  With Seydel's Configurator, these Soloist Pro 12 Steel harmonicas can be configured in fourkey tuning.  So thanks to Seydel, 12-hole fourkey harmonicas with a range of 2.5 octaves are now commercially available for the first time!

Seydel has not yet added fourkey tuning to the Configurator templates for these harmonicas, but I have posted patterns for instruments in two different layouts, each of which is feasible for the Soloist Pro 12 Steel in enough keys to cover all twelve major keys without bends or overblows.  These 12-hole fourkey patterns can be found at
http://home.comcast.net/~rbmy/fourkey12s.pdf

More information about fourkey tuning is available at
http://4keyharps.wordpress.com/

-Roger Myerson


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