Georgia Blues
162 posts
Aug 19, 2015
5:55 AM
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OK, I got this problem. All my life I have held the mic in my right hand, which makes it impossible to get a reasonable cup on a chromatic and work the slide at the same time. Toooo old to change. Anyhow I was looking at my 64 this morning and thought "Well if I just drilled one hole on the left side of the comb I should be able to flip the the mouthpiece/slider assembly and work it with my left hand, from the bass side." Problem solved. No? Yes?
Am I missing something here. Seems like a good idea to me.
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barbequebob
3007 posts
Aug 19, 2015
10:31 AM
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The late, great Cham-Ber Huang was left handed and he actually had his chromatics specially made for him set up for a left handed player, but I believe that, if memory serves me correct, that his low notes are at the right and the high notes are at the left, sort of like as if you were playing harmonica upside down and backwards (the equivalent of what left handed guitar players like Otis Rush and Albert King did while still using a right handed guitar but not restrung for a lefty).
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Dr.Hoy
89 posts
Aug 19, 2015
11:05 AM
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I hold the microphone in my right hand, too, but for chromatic playing I've found that it's not that big an adjustment to hold it in my left hand. Much less an adjustment than learning how to use the slide with the left hand; I doubt I could pull that off!
And not only did Cham-Ber Huang play right-handed (look on the cover of one of his method books), he also designed and built harmonicas to his specifications, the most well-known being the CBH-2016, one of the greatest chromatic harmonicas ever made.
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WinslowYerxa
938 posts
Aug 19, 2015
5:54 PM
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Swapping the slide to the other side can be a really involved retrofit on some harps.
However, the Hohner 270 Deluxe and Discovery are both made so that you can do this easily. Maybe there are others as well.
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jbone
2008 posts
Aug 20, 2015
3:29 AM
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Suggestion, if possible use a mic in a stand and eliminate having to hold it and the harp. I use a Shure 585 into a tube amp and it's a good sounding mic that fits a standard mic chuck.
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