REM
204 posts
May 30, 2012
4:46 PM
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This might be a little confusing, but technically you're playing 11th position, but what you're doing is essentially playing like your in 4th position just with the button held in. So as far as the position, it kind of depends on how you look at it.
Playing the key of D on an E harmonica is 11th position. But with an E chromatic, if push you the button in and just keep it held in you essentially now have an F harmonica. And playing in the key of D on an F harmonica is 4th position. I would think of it as playing in 4th position, but technically I would say it is 11th position.
Last Edited by on May 30, 2012 4:54 PM
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FMWoodeye
355 posts
May 30, 2012
5:39 PM
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Billy, I'd defer to REM as I played the chroms almost as if they were diatonics, but mostly in first position. That's why my blues sounded so..uh..corny. Still, the most I could manage bending a CX was about 3/8 step clean. I could go a half step with a thin, airy, unusable tone. I can hit all the bends nicely on the diatonic. There was a BIG bend in Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White by the Harmonicats. I was corresponding with the last living member some years ago, and he told me how the reed was modded, but it's a blank now.
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FMWoodeye
357 posts
May 31, 2012
3:21 PM
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I sucked one right through a hole once, but that was the only mod I did.
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chromaticblues
1248 posts
Jun 01, 2012
7:57 AM
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@billy
Next time you open up one of your cx-12's try this:
Remove all the valves on the outside except for holes 4 and 8.
On the inside remove the valves on holes 4 and 8. Leave all the other valves on the inside alone.
Last Edited by on Jun 01, 2012 8:58 AM
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laurent2015
242 posts
Jun 02, 2012
7:02 AM
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"but the valves buzz and rattle and stick."
Billy, a good thing what you did as experiment.
Now when you warm up your chrom (2min) before playing, you don't get those troubles any longer.
BTW, since holes on a chrom are wider than on a diatonic, don't you put more effort to bend on a chrom?
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