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The cross-strung harp or chromatic double harp is a multi-course harp that has two rows of strings which intersect without touching. While accidentals are played on the pedal harp via the pedals and on the lever harp with levers, the cross-strung harp features two rows so that each of the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale has its own string.
1st position (or "straight harp"): Ionian mode. Playing the harmonica as it was intended, in its main major key. On a diatonic, starting note is hole 1 blow. On a C-chromatic, starting hole is the same, resulting in C major scale. This is the main position used for playing folk music on the harmonica. 2nd position (or "cross harp"): Mixolydian ...
Norton Buffalo (far right, in the blue-green shirt) on his last tour with the Steve Miller Band during the summer of 2009. Phillip Jackson (September 28, 1951 [1] – October 30, 2009), [2] best known as Norton Buffalo, was an American singer-songwriter, country and blues harmonica player, record producer, bandleader and recording artist who was a versatile proponent of the harmonica ...
Clarke was born in Inglewood, California, on March 29, 1951. [2] In 1967, he began playing harmonica and was soon performing in Los Angeles-area clubs. [2] He struck up an association with blues harmonica virtuoso George "Harmonica" Smith [3] and the two began playing regularly together in 1977; their partnership lasted until Smith died in 1983.
The three-row so-called "chromatic nyckelharpa", with three melody strings tuned A1 – C1 – G, one drone tuned at C (from the highest to the lowest string) that is only touched occasionally, and 12 resonance strings (one for each step of the chromatic scale). Kontrabasharpa ("double bass harp") – most popular during the 17th and 18th ...
3 Video. 4 Recordings. 5 Tours. 6 ... together with Hazel Mills on Keyboards and T J Allen on guitar and effects. ... Bryan Ferry As Time Goes By 1999–2000 Harp ...
Double chromatic harp, built ca. 1890 by Henry Greenway; one of two extant instruments of this type, (photo: National Music Museum) Henry Greenway (Birmingham, England, 1833 - St. Louis, Missouri, 1903) was an English-born American harp maker. He created a type of chromatic cross-strung harp displaying X
Playing a harpejji. The harpejji (/ h ɑːr ˈ p ɛ dʒ iː / har-PEJ-ee) [1] is an electric stringed musical instrument developed in 2007 by American audio engineer Tim Meeks. [2] [3] It has been described by its manufacturer as a cross between a piano and a guitar, [1] [4], and by Jacob Collier as a cross between an accordion and a pedal steel guitar. [5]