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From: Pat Missin
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 19:35:51
Subject: Re: Ideal Blues Tuning

Winslow Yerxa let us in on the following secret:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> ==================================================>DRAW: | B | D | G | B | D | F | F# | A | C | E |
> +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
>BLOW: | G | C | E | G | C | E | G | B | D | G |
> ==================================================>

Sorry WY - I should have first checked with you that you wanted to share
this gem with harp-l. However, I'm dashed glad that you did. I don't know
if it is *the* blues tuning, but it is a very useful one. I usually have
half a dozen of these in my case for blues gigs (other gigs too - it's a
very flexible tuning). I particularly like playing this one to trad blues
players, who get rather puzzled when I go from typical cross harp licks,
into typical straight harp plicks, without changing harps!

It's also very similar in principle to Brendan Power's Power Tuning,
although when I played the Combination Tuning to Brendan, he thought it was
an even better idea than his own tuning! As well as being great in the key
of C, it's pretty hot in the key of Am, too.

-- Pat.