Re: [Harp-L] Interesting new tuning

[Roger Myerson <rmyerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Rex.  I appreciate your asking this.  Many people think that the 
root of the key must be the lowest note of the instrument, but of course 
this repeating pattern could be started at any point in the cycle.
In this tuning, however, we can fit an extra note in a 12-hole harmonica 
if we start with either the second or the sixth (D or A in the key of C) 
as the low note in hole 1.  With a range less than 2.5 octaves here, 
every additional note is much valued!  My experience is that it is good 
to have a fifth note (G here) below the low root note, and so that is 
why I chose this layout.  But you might prefer to start on A, in which 
case it would become
BLOW  A  C  D  F  G  A  C  D  F  G  A  C
DRAW  B  D  E  G  A  B  D  E  G  A  B  D

On 6/27/2014 6:34 PM, rex wrote:
> The first thing I noticed is no key note until hole 5. I like the key 
> note (and a leading seventh) to occur earlier. Is it your goal to play 
> this one harp in all keys? Then perhaps it wouldn't matter where it 
> starts.

> BLOW  D  F  G  A  C  D  F  G  A  C  D  F
> DRAW  E  G  A  B  D  E  G  A  B  D  E  G