[Harp-L] The Diatonic Chord Harmonica

["Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Winslow Yerxa)->"The term 'comping' is used almost exclusively by jazz musicians. Jazz harmonica players almost never play chords, and the term is used mostly in reference to guitar and piano playing. The term is practically unknown in blues, country, Celtic, rock, and popular music, the styles where rhythmic chording on harmonicas is most likely to be employed".

The term "comping" while rarely used pertaining to any typical harmonica then does seem to work for that specific medical-harmonica usage as described by Dr Schauman and having of just four primary chords (blow or draw and left or right) on the instrument; the design by Dr Schauman might be referenced as the "Comping-Harmonica".

The spiral-tuned medical harmonica would not be referenced as the "Comping Harmonica".

/Neil (" http://thebuskingproject.com/busker/2025 ")