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Tuning - Country Tuning & Paddy Richter Combined, Part 2

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Sun, 03/20/2011 - 07:59
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Here's the pitch set of this marriage...

C E A C E G C E G C = BLOW
D G B D F# A B D F# A = DRAW

You can now play in Major in 2nd Position with no bending required from 2 draw to 9+...

G Major Scale: 2 3+ 3 4+ 4 5+ 5 6+ (G A B C D E F# G) 6+ 6 7 7+ 8 8+ 9 9+

Cool, but why would we want to do this? 1st Position already can do this (G Major Diatonic Harmonica played in 1st Position = G Major Scale as well). Ponder this a bit.

P.S., Lee Oskar markets this tuning as the Melody Maker (and is labeled in 2nd Position... yes, you buy a G Melody Maker to play in the key of G Major, 2nd Position... a modified C Harmonica like above).

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