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2 sets?
2 sets?
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Leatherlips
129 posts
Sep 15, 2012
3:25 PM
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As I play with both an electric and an acoustic duo, it seems to me that having two sets of harps might be the go.
I use special 20's for the electric band but find that if I want to play something particularly poignant and quiet with the duo, I don't get any response from the reed at all when I need it.
I used to have a few lee oskars at one time which would handle the acoustic quite well, but they are long gone and have been replaced with the SP20's.
So getting an alternate set seems a little radical to me, but may be the only answer.
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Joe_L
2054 posts
Sep 15, 2012
5:07 PM
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It doesn't seem to be a bad idea. At last, have duplicates of the most commonly used keys. There is little worse than having a harp go out on the middle of a performance said the man who mannered too kill three harps in the past two weeks. If they weren't two years old, i would have been more upset.
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nacoran
6088 posts
Sep 16, 2012
9:05 AM
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I've thought about alternating keys between ET harps and something closer to Just. Bb LO, B Sp20, C LO (and a custom Blues Harp), Db Sp20, D LO, huh, I seem to be farther along in the process than I thought. I've got an A Blues Harp and a Eb Blues Harp. After that it breaks down in my set gig with a E MB, F Piedmont (I've got a LF MB and a LLF Seydel), and an F# GM.
If you do it right you are never more than a 1/2 step away from being able to do the song in either tuning.
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