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

[George Miklas <harmonicat@xxxxxxxxx>]

You know Joe, Cham-Ber Haung taught a concept similar to this in 1977 when
he presented a master class with Vito Patierno and the Steel Valley
Harmonica Club.

On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The way to understand a harmonica is to visualize an apartment building.
> Each and every note has an apartment. You are a mail man. Delivering the
> mail..so to speak. The FIRST thing a harmonica player should do is to find
> out where everyone (the notes) lives. Before you even TRY to play a tune.
> Once you have everyone's address and a picture in your mind of the musical
> chart and where said apartment fits on the manuscript paper, you are now
> ready to be called a REAL mail man. BeCAUSE, no matter WHAT the key, those
> resident notes will ALways live right there where you have them on your
> 'delivery' route.
>
> smokey-joe
>
> On May 17, 2014, at 12:07 PM, JON KIP wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > go figure.
> >
> >
> > jon kip
> > http://jonkip.com
> >
> > 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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