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Anything apart from the two mainstream default harmonicas (Solo-tuned fully-valved chromatic, and un-valved Richter 10-hole diatonic). Alternate tunings, different construction, new functionality, interesting old designs, wishful-thinking... whatever!
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Re: Introduce yourself

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Arnold wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:50 am Thanks Triona,

I have found your post very helpful, as are your other ones that I have read through :)
Nice to read some positive response. :D

Arnold wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:50 am It is the ‘melodeon’ that I refer to, yes. Not so much emulating the sound as imparting a similar drive to the rhythm. So bass/chord patterns, become tongue slap/release and so on. I’m getting there with Jigs, Polkas, Marches etc. The biggest challenge rhythmically has been hornpipes.
Here you have hit the point!
That is exactly what I meant.
It looks like you are on the right path.

Arnold wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:50 am I’m fairly settled on 10 hole richter. I’ve tried others, but I don’t fancy having to tune all those reeds!.. Of course, there is still the missing 6th problem but other folk instruments have even greater limitations. There are many popular English session tunes that omit this note fortunately, although I do have a neat solution based on one of the designs on this site (thanks to Brendan)
Different tunings never are a must. They always are a can. They can enlarge your versatility. But I know good players as well who do not want to change from Richter to anything else - as far as concerning diatonics. It is the same with chromatic players who do not want to play anything else than a standard solo tuned chrom in C / C#.

They would be disturbed in their deeply internalised breath pattern and muscle memory. They prefer to practise as long as it takes to manage it with a Richter respectively a standard chrom in C, before they would learn and get used to anything different and would have to change between several systems all the time. It depends on personal preferences and most effective individual learning and practise techniques.


Arnold wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:50 am It is the ‘melodeon’ that I refer to, yes. Not so much emulating the sound as imparting a similar drive to the rhythm. So bass/chord patterns, become tongue slap/release and so on. I’m getting there with Jigs, Polkas, Marches etc. The biggest challenge rhythmically has been hornpipes.
Here it is me to have a question which you maybe can answer for me:
I did not catch the rhythmical difference between a hornpipe and the other sqare beats (even meters). What is the the very point that makes a hornpipe? What are its typical features compared to e.g. a reel, polka, march? And what about the original / former hornpipes noted in 3/2, 3/4, 6/2 or even others?

I am referring to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornpipe
I could not yet hear the difference.


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Re: Introduce yourself

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Good question Triona,

Firstly, I mean 4/4 Hornpipes. I’m not sure how they came to share a name with earlier 3/2s… More confusingly still, a 4/4 Hornpipe may be played with either a straight or dotted (swung) rhythm. It is the dotted type, developed in the north east of England I think, that is the most characteristic, and the style most widely adopted in Ireland etc. What I am finding most difficult about playing them, is punching in the chord on the 2 and 4, whilst maintaining the dotted rhythm, but without the result sounding ‘jerky’. Here is an example of one of the Hornpipes I am learning, played really nicely on the melodeon (there are many other examples with the jerkiness I am trying to avoid!): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7DT8jzAcn ... hvcm5waXBl

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Firstly, thank you.
I did not find enough time to study this more deeply the last days. But surely I will do that.
This seems to be a question that is discussed by others as well. This is what I found once upon a day back:
https://thesession.org/discussions/24314


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