Re: stacked diatonic harmonica?

That is definitly one workable option. Especially if you like to drop 
chords into your playing. On the few tunes that I play using two 
harps I find myself usually using harps tuned a 5th (up, or a 4th 
going down) apart. For instance, on "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" 
you can play the first part on a G harp in 12 position (key of C). If 
you play this in first position on a C Richter harp you have the 
problem of the missing A in the lower octave. But 12th position on 
the G will not allow the bend in the bridge part of the tune and it 
has a missing note also (the F# needs to be an F). So I switch to a C 
harp and play that part in first position. Then back to a G to 
finish. I do not bolt the harps together. As far as switching for 
just one note, I don't do that. I will switch harps to play an entire 
section of the tune and pick an easy spot to make the switch. 
I've never had a chromatic, most of the tunes I want to play do not 
need one. The chrome players seem to complain about windsavers a lot 
and I want to keep my harps simple and easy to maintain. If you want 
to play classical music my method would not work, but for the Gospel 
and Old Time tunes I like it works fine. 

--- In [email protected], "James Freer" <jessejazza2@...> 
wrote:
>
> True. When i started playing i wasn't keen on a chromatic and 
efforts
> at bending were ok for a semitone on easier holes. When i learnt 
about
> asian playing of tremolo i thought stacking was worth pursuing for 
me
> as i wasn't keen on tremolo (i do wonder how accurate tuning of
> tremolos can be if a 10 hole can be out by 20% which is what i've
> read.
> 
> Soloist are available but there is little choice... Hering being the
> best imho. I didn't get round to tuning a soloist from C to Db.
> Playing a soloist on its own and bending gives you
> [hole] note
> [1]Db [2]Gb  [3]Ab [4]C (already got) [5]Db [6]Gb [7]Ab [8]C 
(already
> got) [9]Db [10]Gb [11]Ab [12]C (already got)
> 
> I thought one was better off with 10 holes and a key C and Db. This 
is
> koch tuning. One misses out with five notes but gains the chords...
> and more choice of harp. Missing notes are lower octave - F, A, Gb, 
Bb
> and upper octave B. I thought that was a better compromise.
> 
> am i right?
> 
> thanks
> james
> 
> 2008/9/24 Rex <beads594@...>:
> >
> >
> >
> > The stacked diatonic is still not fully chromatic in the lower or 
upper
> > octave. A stacked solo tuned would be. Two Melody Maker tuned 
harps a
> > half step apart would give you two chromatic octaves, but you 
would
> > have to tune one harp yourself because all keys are not available 
from
> > Oskar.
> >
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