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364 Solo Tuned
364 Solo Tuned
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Zadozica
243 posts
Feb 05, 2013
10:34 AM
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Just ordered my 364 Solo Tuned harp in the key of C. The main reason is to learned BWH song Skip It.
Anyone know any other blues songs that use this harp?
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Sherwin
15 posts
Feb 05, 2013
12:01 PM
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@Zadozica, glad you posted this, I just picked up a used one in good shape myself. Nice harp, bends well, overblows passably, I had been looking forward to finding a song or two to play on the thing.
I haven't put in much time yet on this harp, but I could see it being fun. I think it may be possible to play it chromatically I'm part way there, don't know yet if it's possible. That idea has got to be irksome to some of the forum members I'm sure, sorry.
I will be watching this thread closely, thanks, catch you later....Sherwin
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Sherwin
16 posts
Feb 05, 2013
4:32 PM
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Everybody please ignore most of my last post.
Sincerely Sherwin
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Sherwin
17 posts
Feb 05, 2013
5:29 PM
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I had searched the web a short time ago for info on blues played on the solo tuned harmonica, and until I looked up Big Walter's "skip it" just now and found myself on Pat Missin's site, I had found nothing.
God bless Pat, what a site.
...some of what I found there......Big Walter plays solo tuned with Carey Bell playing chrom. on Have Mercy 2nd song side B Alligator 4702, I'm lookin' at the back of my "new" LP right now, big old 364 in Walter's mouth. Slim Harpo-----Yeah Yeah Baby, Snoopin' Around, Blues Hangover. And Alan Wilson on Canned Heat's I'm Her Man.
Glad I found that stuff, nice that I have that Big Walter album, gotta look through my Canned Heat and Slim Harpo and see what else I have.
Sherwin
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Zadozica
244 posts
Feb 06, 2013
5:22 AM
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Yep, I found the same thing.. Not much out there on that harp from what I can see.
Looks like we will have to blaze the trail ;)
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barbequebob
2188 posts
Feb 06, 2013
8:08 AM
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The actual model BW played on it was a model known as the Marine Band Soloist/School Band model, which was discontinued in 1975, and was designed as a stepping stone towards learning how to play a chromatic, as it is tuned the same way a chromatic is with the slide not pressed in, but you don't have the set of C# plates in order to play fully chromatic, but you can do 1/2 step note bending that on a chromatic is almost impossible to play.
The 364S (solo tuned) came out in the early 80's (tho issued around 1977 to be used exclusively as part of the LP/harmonica instructional kit that was put out by classical chromatic virtuoso Cham-Ber Huang), but these are physically larger than the original Soloist it replaced and from my experience having both the real Soloist model and the 364S, the 364S was a poor quality replacement.
The School Band model also used to come in the key of G as well as C.
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Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
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