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From: Glenn Weiser
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:23:53 -0400
Subject: Re: natural minor

> Hi Rick!
>
> Good to know you're still with us.
>
> At the risk of stirring up a hornets nest, I'd suggest that what Hohner
> label NM is not, strictly, tuned to the natural minor scale - in first
> position what you've got is the Dorian mode of C (on the CNm), which, to be
> sure is *a* natural minor scale, but surely most people think of natural
> minor as being the aeolian mode, to be found in 2nd position on this
> tuning - presumably why Lee Oskar labels his Nm harps in 2nd to start with.
>
> Why did Hohner decide to label them this way?
>
> Steve Jennings
>
No hornets to worry about-the Dorian and Aeloian modes are distinct
entities-I bet Hohner did it to compete with LO and it was a marketing
decision.

Glenn Weiser