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From: Bobbie Giordano
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 04:27:26 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Position Links

Hmmm... should learn to read over my old material before reposting it.

Error:

On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Bobbie Giordano reposted a message exerpted and
corrected here:

> Thu, 8 Feb 1996 06:02:52 -0500 (EST)
> Bobbie Giordano (bo~reenet.scri.fsu.edu)
> Re: Compatible Harps
>
> At first, I figured that I HAD included 12th position, since it is the
> same [and I listed it as such] as the F scale played in 6th position on
> the F# harp. I was "informed" that 12th position was in Lydian mode
> [major 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th, augmented 4th, perfect 5th,] but it looked
> like Locrian to me [minor 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 7th, perfect 4th, diminished
> 5th.] As a matter of fact it is Locrian, in the 6th position on either
> harp [equivalent to the 12th position on the other harp.] But when played
> ON the harp for which it is the 12th position, in both cases it IS Lydian
> mode [as well as equivalent to the other harp's 6th position.] The ease
> of playing the 12th position on it's "home harp" is that all it takes to
> make it a major scale is to bend the 4th note.

Should have read "all it takes to make it a major scale is to overblow
the 4th note."

Sorry 'bout that.

*** Bobbie ***

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