groyster1
849 posts
Feb 13, 2011
5:38 AM
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tony glovers book on blues harp was first published in 1965 in the chapter on 4th position he shows that the tonic is 2blow the subdominant is 6draw and the dominant is 3draw-this is now changed to 5th position-why the change?
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5F6H
534 posts
Feb 13, 2011
6:32 AM
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The positions on harp were initially identified in the order that players simply discovered them (there was no formal pattern of intervals), the old guys who worked with 4th position would largely have been using 2blow as the tonic. However, those with an interest in musical theory saw that there was no consistent pattern to which position was which, so introduced the "circle of 5ths" method of naming positions.
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MrVerylongusername
1558 posts
Feb 13, 2011
6:33 AM
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Because the convention of naming positions by the circle of fifths is quite a recent development.
Early on it seems positions were pretty much named in the order people learned them in.
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harpdude61
736 posts
Feb 13, 2011
6:54 AM
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Interesting.....I had not heard of this, but I guess it mades sense to them.
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