[Harp-L] Re: Ultimate half-valved chromatic tuning

["Brendan Power" <bren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Pearce wrote he’d like to alter my PowerChromatic tuning (C/D, E/F#,
G/A, A/B, C/D, etc., all the way up the harp) for his own purposes to:



“C/D, E/F#, F#/G, A/B, C/D, etc..

Would there be a disadvantage in terms of chords to changing the repeated
note from an A to an F# as shown in the above example?”



Yes: you’d lose a draw bend. The whole point of this tuning is that all the
draw notes bend, but F# and G are only a semitone apart, so you couldn’t
bend the G. A better way to get the sound you’re after is to leave the
tuning as it is but play in D. Then the sound is much like playing a blues
harp in 2nd position



Brendan Power

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