Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] History of harp tuning; Chrom Tuning

[Rick Dempster <rickdempster33@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you don't have a repeated pattern on the chrom, you end up witth
'Spiral', for better or worse, or an arrangement like the....364 is it?
like SBWII on 'Bye Bye Bird', where you are having to go back a hole to get
the next higher not.
The not arrangements on standard diatonic & chrom make a lot of sense to me
( I don't hear Howard Leavy bitching about it)



On 18 May 2014 02:07, JON KIP <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On the chromatic harmonica, the idea of using "repeatable patterns" of
> 'fingerings' (for Slim's understandable  lack of a better word) just
> doesn't occur to me. I think of the notes I want to have come out and the
> brain and fingers take over. Adding thinking about patterns at any time, is
> just counter-productive for me and useless, at least on the chromatic
> instrument.
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> Of course, I'm new at this stuff, only ten years in, on an instrument
> that, like other Real Instruments, takes at least 18.5 years to perfect
> (look it up),  and only recently noticed that there are numbers on the
> cover plates....they seem to be in numerical order....One of my students
> has been referring to the notes by what I assume is those numbers, so
> sooner or later I'll have to learn which hole number, blow or draw, is
> which note....he also puts the numbers and arrows under the written notes
> on the music.... I'm not sure what's up with that, but he doesn't always
> write the correct numbers, or arrows, so has to constantly decide between
> what his ears are telling him and what his eyes are telling
> him.....unfortunately at this point, his eyes are in charge.
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> I do enjoy someone's take on color-coding the keys of a retuned
> piano....or even using braille-like dots,  perhaps I misread it
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> I am, though, impressed and amazed at how some people can go from one
> instrument to a different tuning on another same-sized instrument... that's
> just weird to me...I have enough trouble going to a different keyed
> chromatic harmonica, so I don't. When, after years of Alto sax playing, I
> had to play tenor, all the wrong notes came out.
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> go figure.
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> jon kip
> http://jonkip.com
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> player of music, mostly written by dead people and played on a toy that
> everybody's Uncle except my nephew's has the good sense to keep safely out
> of sight in a drawer.
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