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From: jfraz~cusd.edu ("Harmonica" John Frazer)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:12:34 -0800
Subject: Re: A Stubborn Position (think again)

>Bobbie Giordano wrote:
frustration when I finally looked into the position designations
>> of alternately tuned harmonicas. It made no sense, on its surface, to me.
>

>> So what gives with the positions? Whatever they are.

Michael Will replies

>
>If we accept the definition of position as "which hole and how it is played as
>the root note", then it is clearly defined. You can speak of the mode
>associated with the natural notes (unbent) of a particular position.
>
>Let's look at the piano. You can start at any white key, and play only
>successive white keys, and get a different mode (one associated with each
>starting white key). If you call the root white key the starting
>position, you
>end up with the situation diatonic players are in. White keys correspond to
>unbent notes; black keys, bent ones.
>
>But that doesn't mean you can't start at any white key and play any mode by
>using both white and black keys. Straight and bent notes. Any position.
>
>Mic'l

HJ re replies

This does not work as well on a diatonic harp because of the changes in
intervals from the low side to the high side. The closest thing to the
piano comparison would be the C chromatic harmonica where the slide makes
the black keys happen.

- -- Harmonica John Have you had your paradigm shift today?
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