Talk:Harmonica techniques

Layout

Thanks to the folks who wrote harmonica, it was of great assistance. Hyacinth 07:13, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Added drawing of blues-harp layout, in place of previous textual diagram. --Lor 03:42, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Nice image! I added it to harmonic#The diatonic harmonica. Hyacinth 04:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

scales match

I might be wrong, but the fifth degree of the key of G is D, not C. Therefore, if you use C-harp to play the blues in G, an A-harp should by analogy be applyed for the blues in E. I'm not a harp player, so I might be wrong...

you're right, you use a C to play G, and an A to play E (whoever wrote this had it backwards, you use an E to play B and a G to play D)... I'm fixing it now.

It's me again :) I think it would be more correct to say "The key in which blues harmonica is played..." instead of "The tuning of a harmonica played in this style..."

The Ending is a Joke

The ending of this already short article is a tangent and completely outside of encyclopedia format. It starts with the "alcohol soaking" paragraph and only gets worse. I will wait a while for a reply and then rework it. Didgepenguin

The "beginner's technique" link at the end of the article is an e-commerce site with little or no useful information on playing harmonica

glissandos

Bends are NOT a way of creating glissandos. A glissando on the harmonica is simply a note played after sliding either up or down from a lower or higher note--i.e., a lower or higher hole. A glissando may be preceded and/or followed by a bend; there's a common glissando, for example, that cycles down and then up between the 1 draw and 4 draw--down to the 1 draw, gliss up to the 4 draw, then bend and release the 4 draw. But the overwhelming majority of glissandos (or glissandi) on the harp do NOT involve bends at any point. --Adam Gussow (www.youtube.com/kudzurunner)216.119.179.229 16:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge this article into Harmonica?

This article needs work, for instance, it seems to refer to Richter diatonics (e.g., "19 notes") but without saying so. But I wonder if it should exist at all? There is no article "Guitar technique(s)" and no "Piano technique(s)" (There is Violin technique).

The Harmonica article has a short and sketchy techniques section. Why not fold a rewritten version of this article into it? Just a thought.