[Harp-L] New tuning #1

[Jeremy Uejio]

Hi Roger!

It's an honor to meet the inventor of the fourkey tuning.  Thank you soo
much for inventing that!  I enjoyed your classical music videos and also
the Jazmaan jazz videos.  Thanks for passing that along.  I keep meaning to
post some videos of me playing some tunes with my fourkey tuned Seydel, but
I just haven't had the time (or the skill!) to practice.

jeremy

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 12:46 PM Roger Myerson <rmyerson at xxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy:
> I have been playing fourkey tuning since 2009.  I have explored a lot of
> other tunings, but ultimately this has been the one for me.
> In the past few years, I have been developing arrangements of classical
> music pieces for a little 10-hole fourkey harmonica.  You can see them
> performed by a player with very limited ability (me) at
> https://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/classical4key.htm
> But the best examples of what a great player can do with a fourkey
> harmonica are Jazmaan's videos from 2009:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Thib725Ig
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5un0JAkWoc
> I hope to see you at SPAH this summer.
> -Roger
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 11:58:15 -0500
> > From: Gary Lehmann<gnarlyheman at xxxxx>
> > To: Jeremy Uejio<jazzju at xxxxx>
> > Cc:jross38 at xxxxx,harp-l at xxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Harp-L] New tuning #1
> > Message-ID:<C2CFB298-246E-4630-B32C-DFBA67491752 at xxxxx>
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> >
> > I am down with the Fourkey.
> > Today I am working on other people?s harps but send me a number and I
> will gladly chat.
> > Gary
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On May 1, 2023, at 11:40 AM, Jeremy Uejio<jazzju at xxxxx>  wrote:
> >>
> >> ?
> >> Have you ever tried fourkey tuning?  It takes getting used to and
> doesn't have a lot of common chords.  They come in different keys as well.
> I have one which is tuned:
> >>
> >> Blow:
> >> G-Bb-C-Eb-F-G-Bb-C-Eb-F
> >> Draw:
> >> A-B-D-E-F#-A-B-D-E-F#
> >>
> >> This means that you can play every note in the chromatic scale with
> just two bends (Ab and Db). It also means that you can play in 4 keys
> without any bends.  So, in my case, I have the keys of C, F, G, and Bb.
>  It has just under a 2 octave range so it's quite limited, but it turns out
> that it roughly is in the same range as my voice (except for the high F and
> F#), so if I can sing a song, then I can play it.  Haha!
> >>
> >> I started combining my fourkey tuned harp with a circular tuned harp
> (in C) so that I can play some common chords and that works out pretty well.
> >>
> >> I would be happy to discuss or demo fourkey tunings with you offline.
> >>
> >>
> >> jeremy
> >>
>
> --
> Roger B. Myerson, David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor
> Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
> 1307 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
> http://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/
>