[Harp-L] James L Gordon

[Winslow Yerxa]

I made some live Facebook videos of some Magic Harps I was selling late in 2018 or early 2019 to benefit Jason Ricci, who was going into deep rehab and had no income over a significant period. He had found them for sale on eBay, bought them, brought them to me in New Orleans at the Harmonica Collection, and asked me to map them out so we could sell them. I did that and sold most of them, though I recently discovered I still have at least one of the ones I'd meant to sell.  
One of these harps were in the Streamline tuning under recent discussion, which was created by Jimmy Gordon and was unconnected to the Magic Harp tunings.

I did keep one Magic harp specifically for my own use, the most unusual of the bunch, in what I dubbed Pentaquartal tuning - actually a pentatonic chordal tuning where the chords lay out mostly in perfect fourths, which I used to record the instrumental "Soulagement," which you can hear here:

https://youtu.be/VkpZaGISkF4
Later, I used Brendan Power's Switch Harp device to  link two pentaquartal harps in Bb and D (built by Seydel), to create this tune, "Morning All Around Us." at the beginning of the COVID shutdown.

https://youtu.be/b_rMQWG-fwc

Winslow Yerxa


    On Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 08:20:47 AM PDT, <bad_hat at xxxxx> wrote:  
 
 The closest thing I would have to a link regarding SS tuning would be a 
link to  Winslow Yerxa's blog page which has several examples of Magic 
Harp tuning with played examples and tuning charts.  I can decode my 
example of SS tuning and post it.  It might take me a bit to get around 
to it but in the interim is Winslow's post on Magic Harps, 
https://winslowyerxa.com/tag/harmonica-collective/