Re: [Harp-L] re:Richter+ tuning

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, back in the 40s and 50s in New York, if you heard the word Paddy, you thought Irish. Strange to term a harmonica as Paddy anything when the thing is (originally?) from Austria. So, along comes this Paddy-Richter tuning, and it seems to work well on Celtic musics. That's good. That's good when that happens. Now I don't know when this tuning came about. But back in 1959 I returned home from Paris and wanted to play doo-wop. I was already playing chromatic but I felt that the diatonic was a better choice. IF I changed one of the reeds.

So I tuned the 5 draw up one sharp, and placed a wind saver on it. I was in business. I had come up with something new. So what. A week later I raised the 9 draw too. So what. I was  W A Y  before anyone. Or was I? No, I wasn't. People have been messing with tunings since coal was invented. Did I ever get any credit for my 'find'. No, but so what. The main thing is that we are all in this together, so just play like your heart tells yo to play. I feel my tuning IS superior to Richter. It opens a whole world of tunes that heretofore had required 2 or 3 separate diatonics, and can now be done on 1. 

smokey-joe 

On May 11, 2014, at 1:48 AM, Robert Hale wrote:

> OH, NO! the ultimate would be the Spiral tuning! <grin>
> Yeah, THAT's the one the world should adopt right away!
> (Seriously, there's room for all of us...Now go and play the harp of your
> choice!)
> 
> Robert Hale
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> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
>> Nobody got rid of Padd Richter. Except for one guy, the one who made the
>> original post. He came up with the name "Richter+." He believes Paddy to be
>> superior to standard tuning and has stated to me that his belief that
>> enormous benefits would result if harmonica manufacturers were to switch to
>> Paddy as their standard harmonica tuning.
>> 
>> However, note his sweeping and rather negative characterization of the
>> music played on standard tuning.
>> 
>> Winslow