Re: [Harp-L] chrom tuning

[Music Cal <macaroni9999@xxxxxxxxx>]

Vern

"The things that you dislike about solo tuning are compromises required by
a harmonica and not by a keyboard. "

Those compromises are no more required of the harmonica than of the
keyboard.

Daniel


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Of course not.  The things that you dislike about solo tuning are
> compromises required by a harmonica and not by a keyboard. There are other
> chromatic tunings that involve other compromises.  Your choice of tunings
> depends on the values that you place on the various compromises.
>
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> On May 13, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Music Cal <macaroni9999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Vern
>
> If you choose those restrictions then solo is tuning is inevitable. But
> those restrictions are a choice. So would you choose to tune a piano like
> the chrom (redundancy and pitch direction change noted above)?
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The fact that blow and draw produce different notes in the scale makes
>> the chromatic harmonica very different from the piano.  Blow-only bass
>> harmonicas duplicate the piano-keyboard layout and require 12 holes for
>> each octave.
>>
>> Solo tuning arises from the desire to:
>>
>> Make the blow-draw pattern of all octaves the same...as they are on a
>> piano.
>> Diatonic C scale requires no button-pushesâemulating other C instruments.
>> Make the tonic blow chord.
>> Play octaves and some other double-stops.
>>
>> These design constraints make solo tuning inevitable.
>>
>> The enharmonics can be used to avoid breath-direction reversals in fast
>> runs or to insert reversals to facilitate breathing. For example, I use B#
>> and E#  exclusively throughout the (melodic minor?) tune Miserlou  (See
>> Dick Dale).
>>
>>
>>
>> The value that you place on these advantages and on the disadvantages
>> that you name determine your feelings about solo tuning. If your aim is to
>> pack the maximum number of octaves into a given number of holes, then
>> youâll favor an alternate tuning that has no redundancies.
>>
>> Vern
>>
>>
>> On May 13, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Music Cal <macaroni9999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > For those of you that think that one tuning is as good as the next I ask
>> > you this: Would you tune a piano like the solo-tuned chromatic
>> harmonica?
>> > This would mean repeated pitches, which sometimes appear a few piano
>> keys
>> > down stream from the others, and in addition, rather than always
>> increasing
>> > in pitch as one goes from left to right across the keyboard, sometimes
>> the
>> > pitches would descend.
>> >
>> > Really? ... Really?
>> >
>> > Daniel
>>
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