Diggsblues
1431 posts
Jul 16, 2014
5:59 AM
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I was just working out in one of Charlie McCoy's books doing
some stuff with a country tuned harp (hole 5 raised a half step). This lets you play full major in cross harp without having to overblow. You can still play blues because you can bend hole 5 down a half step for the b7.
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GMaj7
467 posts
Jul 16, 2014
6:25 AM
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Country Tuning is great.
Here's something I did last week for fun using a Country Tuned Low F.
Played it on a rack w/guitar.
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Greg Jones
16:23 Custom Harmonicas
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SuperBee
2118 posts
Jul 16, 2014
6:34 AM
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Amazing how that one small difference changes so much.
Country tuned Lo F (seydel session) is my steady ax this year
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SuperBee
2119 posts
Jul 16, 2014
6:38 AM
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Oh...but I had to tune it myself, I think I couldn't buy a brass session in that tuning.
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WinslowYerxa
658 posts
Jul 16, 2014
8:33 AM
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Country tuning has many uses.
Here's an old Nova Scotia Acadian folk song, "La femme du soldat," (The soldier's wife) played by a trio of country-tuned G-harps. One plays drone chords, one plays pure melody, and one plays melody with splits.
La femme du soldat
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Winslow
Plunge into the SPAH Experience, August 5-9, 2014
Last Edited by WinslowYerxa on Jul 17, 2014 10:39 AM
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barbequebob
2645 posts
Jul 17, 2014
10:12 AM
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Country tuned harps can be tons of fun. Before Hohner started making them as a production line instrument in 1985/86, before you had to retune harps that way yourself and to those players who did (as I did), they were usually known as Major 7th harps.
You can play 2nd position more like 1st position, plus you can do quite a few ballads in 2nd position where a major 7th would be needed without overblows, plus you have a true V chord there to use and I've used these for playing doo wop tunes where I would often be playing chords or double stops that would mimic the vocal harmony lines being used by the vocalists who weren't singing lead. They're also fun for playing jazz and I've used this for playing the Gene Ammons jazz standard Red Top, and the entire solo that Gene Ammons played on it lays perfectly into it and I usually end it playing with a full Major 7th chord, which you can't do on a standard tuning at all.
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Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
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Kaining
55 posts
Jul 17, 2014
2:23 PM
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We call them "lydian tuned" around my part, as it change the major scale of the harp's key into a lydian scale of the harp's key.
it's also a lot more practical to use arpegios with a country tuned harp.
You can have access to I, I#/IIb, II and II#/IIIb triads without having to change your airflow with a country tuned on the middle octave.
Also bending the 5° to a 5°° add another way to get the V# by bending, from either the V or the VI (6 to 6') and that's quite fun to do.
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dougharps
682 posts
Jul 17, 2014
3:12 PM
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Try out 5th position on a country tuned harp...
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Doug S.
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SuperBee
2121 posts
Jul 17, 2014
4:28 PM
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Exactly what I was thinking Doug. It makes approaching one six two five progressions from second position pretty cool. Also that 6th pos chord can come into play for the 3 chord
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