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by IaNerd
Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:46 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Diagrams of well-known tunings
Replies: 23
Views: 39689

The Natural Minor variant of Richter

Expressed in the second position below.

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by IaNerd
Mon Sep 27, 2021 7:21 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Request help with terminology
Replies: 3
Views: 4141

Request help with terminology

Consider the following: Case 1: Blow: D F A C Draw: C E G B Case 2: Blow: B D F A Draw: C E G B I think I have been using the term "inverted" for both of these kinds of tunings. Case 1 could be considered "inverted" because each blow is higher than its respective draw . Case 2 could be considered "i...
by IaNerd
Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:41 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Re-tuning a Richter Lucky 13 to Major/Minor
Replies: 1
Views: 8889

Re: Re-tuning a Richter Lucky 13 to Major/Minor

In this YouTube video https://youtu.be/3OSuXNV5_pM Paul Gillings ably demonstrates the possibilities of a Lee Oskar tuning called " Seventh Son ". In that tuning, the 1 blow is lowered by two semitones while the 1 draw is raised by three semitones. These changes provide dominant sevenths for (in sec...
by IaNerd
Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:55 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)
Replies: 15
Views: 17211

Re: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)

Update: I have re-tuned a G natural minor Baby Fat as per the post of Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:15 am (above). Note that Kongsheng labels minor harps by first position, whereas some other brands label their minor harps by second position. Buyer beware. The re-tuned 7-holer works as expected and is fun to p...
by IaNerd
Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:52 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Structural evolution of some noteworthy tunings
Replies: 0
Views: 14792

Structural evolution of some noteworthy tunings

For your edification (and mine) .... Here are some noteworthy tunings which can be viewed from a STRUCTURAL (not historical) standpoint as transitioning/evolving from one to the next. There are no better-versus-worse implications here. Each has its place in the hands of the right musicians. Or, as m...
by IaNerd
Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:52 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Re-tuning from PowerChromatic to "inverted" Natural Minor
Replies: 1
Views: 7578

Re: Re-tuning from PowerChromatic to "inverted" Natural Minor

Here is a better version of the re-tuning shown above. This one gives us all three of the lovely notes below the tonic -- the ones necessary for "Ain't No Sunshine". A concern here is that making the two lowest notes even lower could lead to rattling reeds. For those notes I suggest using a nondestr...
by IaNerd
Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:31 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)
Replies: 15
Views: 17211

Re: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)

Looking at the re-tuning at Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:15 am (above), I am now noticing that it is very similar to Major Cross by Tony Eyers ; that tuning also is a derivative of Richter . Both of these tunings feature a low side that is spiral tuned, followed by a high side that has an inverted breath patt...
by IaNerd
Sat Sep 18, 2021 7:31 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Re-tuning a Richter Lucky 13 to Major/Minor
Replies: 1
Views: 8889

Re-tuning a Richter Lucky 13 to Major/Minor

The Natural Minor variant of Richter tuning has been around a long time. Lee Oskar is credited with making this tuning widely available and popular. Of course in its 1st position it can play natural minor songs. But in its 2nd and 3rd positions this tuning is highly suitable for playing minor hexato...
by IaNerd
Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:41 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: History of Natural Minor tuning?
Replies: 1
Views: 6744

History of Natural Minor tuning?

Q1: Who is the creator of the NM tuning?

Q2: What was the first NM harp in regular production?
by IaNerd
Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:16 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: A family of new modded-Richter tunings
Replies: 101
Views: 202277

Re: A family of new modded-Richter tunings

In the time that I have studied, devised and written about alternate tunings, I have on several occasions been humbled by my own unwitting demonstrations of convergent evolution. Consider the tuning shown two posts above this one -- from February 5, 2020 . At the time of this writing that tuning has...