Re: Playing Stacked Tremolo harps

"clydeclc" <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:55:06 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.music.equipment.harmonica.big-harmonica
Message-ID <[email protected]>
try this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIv0AYQMHmU







--- In [email protected], "Robert" <robert_sloane@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Kelven
> 
> Do you have any photographs of this method. I've tried your suggestions and find them very difficult. 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Robert
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Ong Kelven" <kv_ong@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am Kelven from Singapore.
> > To play in chromatic, place the C# above the C harmonica.
> > Use the right hand to grip the pair of harmonica on the right side.
> > On the left side, you use the left hand to grip them and at the same time 
> > let the bottom harmonica( the C key) rest on the palm and supported by the 
> > 4th and 5th finger. Then use the thumb, the index finger and the middle 
> > finger to slide the C# harmonica towards and backwards. You slide the C# 
> > towards your mouth when you are playing a sharp/flat note, you slide it back 
> > and aim for the C harmonica when you return to the normal note. Practise 
> > makes perfect and I had already mastered this way of playing. If I am not 
> > wrong, I would say that this way of playing was very common in China.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Kelven.
> > 
> > 
> > >From: "Barry Groves" <cbgroves@>
> > >Reply-To: [email protected]
> > >To: <[email protected]>
> > >Subject: [big-harmonica] Playing Stacked Tremolo harps
> > >Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:03:29 -0500
> > >
> > >Big-Harmonickers,
> > >
> > >I recently posted this to harp talk.  No one seemed to know about it.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Barry
> > >
> > >
> > >*********************************
> > >
> > >
> > >All,
> > >
> > >Can anyone talk about the actual TECHNIQUE of changing harps, especially
> > >very quickly?
> > >
> > >I'm considering trying the Suzuki Baritone(s) (tremolo) paired C/C# for
> > >chromatic work.  They'd be stacked one on top of the other like a bass. 
> > >This
> > >means changing harps constantly, even in the middle of a melody or run.
> > >
> > >How is this done?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Barry
> > >(who is excited to be doubling on harmonica in an upcoming production of 
> > >The
> > >Wiz, because there is no oboe.)
> > >
> > >
> > 
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