I have a friend in North Carolina who plays dimi slide--Grant Osbourne. I like bebop enough to stick with it (chromatic). As far as dimi diatonic, I have no idea.
Someone on Twitter asked me when I was going to switch to diminished tuning. I think they are being snapped up and held with the aliens from Rosewell. They are probably all jamming in a basement bar of Area 51.
I like chords on a harmonica. The only chords on a diminished harmonica are those weird "tie her to the railroad tracks" chords. They ARE gnarly, however . . .
Arbite, thanks for the kind words regarding my playing. I'm still at it with the diminished and I love it, although I've also been playing a lot more regular Richter (Gnarly is right about the chords, and I miss them on the diminished as well) and also a lot of regular tuned chromatic). As long as it has reeds, right?
Here's my recent "demo" played on a diminished special 20 made by Jim (couple posts above, hat and Seydel shirt). Jim's work is absolutely amazing.
This is a quick impro on one of the Guitar Center backing tracks. I hope I won't screw up the embedded link as I have done several times in the past :).
@Jim - I listened to "Toccata & Fugue in D minor", sounds really, really cool. That low tuning is insane. Sounds like the Fireball is a good match for you!
Hi there wheel! Sounds very good, especially considering you'd only had three days to get used to the new layout! Very jazzy. I might have to try me one of these diminished tunings soon. I'm starting to rack up the number of alternate tunings I play! At this point, I really rely on natural minor harps and my own variant of the richter extended tuning, and I've just started tuning the 7 draw a half-step down on all my regular richters (a la Todd Parrot). I'm still trying to get more usage out of my Powerbenders, and I'm also considering trying out the "easy third" reggae tuning (3 blow down a full step), but sort of married with my Richter Extended tuning (so that would be 3 AND 6 blow down a fullstep, 5 and 6 up a full step, and perhaps 7 up a full step too). Anyway, I'm rambling on a bit, but I'm trying to say that the altered tuning bug has bit me in a major way, and hearing your playing on that track has now made me quite curious to play diminished as well!
isaacullah, thank you so much! Altered tuning for me is also alternative to overblows. :) I'm very bad overblower. I like to use natural minor harp (A and D minor), some times I use them for major. I also used melody maker and country tuning. And I have a 7 harp set with 7 hole adjusted. :) My opinion on diminished is - its the best to play melodies and jazzy tunes. I tried to play blues on it - its possible and I got some new lines on it but I miss octaves with flutters, some double stops etc. Now I think about 2 more diminished harmonicas to more easy playing. Again thank you for comment! ---------- http://www.youtube.com/user/wheelharp
Iam not getting another key. I have my 10 hole 1847 tuned diminished A first blow.
Reason for not getting another key. Well as I have found. Most songs modulate so you end up in all 3 positions anyway. So I would think a good way of screwing it up would be getting a key that changes the positions.
So only other dimi harp I would get would be Eb to get the low register.
Arbite, thank you. I'm newbie in diminished so I could not tell for sure if I need another dimi harp, I need to learn more songs in other keys. I think to learn a song is the best way to learn instrument. ---------- http://www.youtube.com/user/wheelharp
