Re: Jonathan (or anyone) please help... Re: Hohner Echo Celeste note layout

> Jonathan:
>  
> Thank you so much for your reply.  However, I am confused!  You wrote:
>  
>  "With solo (or scale) tuning, a player has full access to as many 
> complete octaves of notes that will fit in a given instrument."
>  
> I don't understand.  On the tuning chart that you sent (below) that 
> the notes are not in order. 

The difference between Richter and solo/scale is the collection of 
available notes.  The order is unexpected, pair-inverted, on both.  The 
pair-inversion is a characteristic of all tremolo harmonicas.  Lots of 
people find that it makes no sense to them.  It starts to make sense, 
only when you are playing the instrument.  But remember: each hole is 
exactly one note, either draw, or blow, and not both.  So if you 
consider every horizontal PAIR of holes as significant, you can ignore 
the pair-inversion, and the advantage will come out very quickly.  The 
advantage is very simple:  it is immensely easier to isolate one single 
note that you want, or especially one single chord that you want, on 
tremolo, than on ten/twelver.

> How does all this make sense????  How do you have supposedly have all 
> this complete octaves when all the notes are mixed up??
>  
> I want to play hymns, folk songs; _full complete melodies_...but I 
> don't see how this is possible with the above mentioned questions.
>  
> Jonathan, thanks again for your first reply, but I am really 
> confused!...  I hope you can help me get this through my thick head!!
>  
> Thanks again in advance.
>  
> God bless,
>  
> Paul Kunz

The above is one of the reasons I wrote the "learning" page as I did, 
with a focus on intuition and a defocus on intellect :)  Have you looked 
at it?  It's here:  http://joshuacorps.org/friends/thetremolo/learning.html

-- 
Jonathan E. Brickman
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