Following a thread by Garry recently, here's a recent track with The Tolka Hot Club with me (Eugene Ryan, not just blingty!) playing my main alternate tuning, diminished on chromatic. It's pretty playable on diatonic in 2nd position with good bend control and three overblows, I think anyway. Starts in Eb, moves to E where you can hear some rhythm lines on harp, moves to A for an ensemble piece (harp mixed a bit low on that), then again A for the outro. I hope you enjoy it as music whatever the tuning.
Diminished is a great tuning, fewer patterns to learn. Eugene is one of the handful of great players using this tuning, I would sink more time into it but have already picked my favorite. Disclaimer, I have done some retuning for him.
Thanks, Gary. Yep you made a few chroms for me, very happy with them.
Diminished chrom has a lot of advantages. Well, I guess every tuning does and there are trade-offs on each. Ease of transposition and being able to bend a lot of notes, enharmonics too are some of those of diminished.
