Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica for Dummies

["Leonardo K. Shikida" <shikida@xxxxxxxxx>]

damn. do I have to draw too? :-)

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Leo

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Leo


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 8:45 PM, John Kerkhoven
<solo_danswer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I disagree. Sure, it's the case that the blow reed is on top, but
> intuitively, I always think of the blow notes as being on the bottom.
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> John
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> > * the drawings of the harmonica layout are very uncommon where blow holes
> > are shown on the bottom and draw holes on top, while the actual layout of
> > the reed plates is the opposite way and all other resources I have found
> > use the notation to reflect the physical layout of a harp -- in a new
> > revision it would be great to have the figures reversed I think :)
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> > I agree with Peter Karp (April 12 Digest post) regarding Winslow's
> instructional books.  For thoroughness, helpful drawings, explanation of
> concepts and included exercises I find the Dummies books to be the very
> best resource.  (And the only instructional book I am aware that always
> shows both tab and standard note notation -- very helpful).
> >
> > But the graphics in the appendixes are opposite the actual note layout
> -- that is top vs bottom.  I too would like to see this reversed.
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