jim
374 posts
Oct 01, 2010
12:39 PM
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Here's a little gimmick I've made not long ago:
I called this tuning "Arabic" because naturally - that's the sort of tunes you'd be using it for...
key of C goes like this:
C Eb G Bb D Gb A Db Eb G
D Gb A Db Eb G Bb D Gb A
It is designed to be played in D. If you start on 1 draw and run up on all blows and draws, you'll get 2.5 octaves of the Arabic scale [ D Eb Gb G A Bb Db D ]. Since everything is played without bends or overblows, you can add valves.
You can make one yourself if you wish:
Take any richter harp. The end result will be +1semitone from the original key, so if you need it in C, you should use a B in richter.
Swap reeds 7-10 and then retune it, will be 2 semitones down max.
It is intonated the following way:
EVEN blows +16cents, ODD draws +16cents, the rest is zero.
And well it sounds like this (key of High G):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5452421/Arabic1.mp3
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