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  2. Harmonica techniques - Wikipedia

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    This is the main position used for playing folk music on the harmonica. 2nd position (or "cross harp"): Mixolydian mode. Playing the harmonica in a key a fourth below its intended key. Playing just the unbended notes, this position gives the mixolydian scale between 2 draw and 6 blow. However, bending the 3 draw allows the player to play a ...

  3. Harmonica - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the 19 notes readily available on the diatonic harmonica, players can play other notes by adjusting their embouchure and forcing the reed to resonate at a different pitch. This technique is called bending , a term possibly borrowed from guitarists, who literally bend a string to subtly change the pitch.

  4. Richter-tuned harmonica - Wikipedia

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    Blues harp. The Richter-tuned harmonica, 10-hole harmonica (in Asia) or blues harp (in America), is the most widely known type of harmonica.It is a variety of diatonic harmonica, with ten holes which offer the player 19 notes (10 holes times a draw and a blow for each hole minus one repeated note) in a three-octave range.

  5. Tremolo harmonica - Wikipedia

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    Here the notes of the major scale are found throughout the range of the harmonica without a separate chord section in the bass octave. This helps to facilitate a common practice in Asia of playing both a C and C ♯ harmonica stacked in order to achieve full chromaticity by having essentially the same notes available in each octave of the ...

  6. Chromatic harmonica - Wikipedia

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    While the chromatic harmonica is capable of playing in all keys, it does have limitations. [5] For example, while chromatic harmonicas can "bend" notes down in pitch, as a single-reed bend it sounds quite different from the typical dual-reed bend of a blues harp, and can only bend downward by a semi-tone.

  7. Bruce Willis brought fans joy by playing the blues on harmonica just months after his aphasia diagnosis. His wife posted video of the jam session.

  8. Richter tuning - Wikipedia

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    Richter tuning is a system of choosing the reeds for a diatonic wind instrument (such as a harmonica or accordion).It is named after Joseph Richter, a Bohemian instrument maker who adopted the tuning for his harmonicas in the early 19th century and is credited with inventing the blow/draw mechanism that allows the harmonica to play different notes when the air is drawn instead of blown.

  9. Solo tuning - Wikipedia

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    Solo tuning is a system of choosing the reeds for a diatonic wind instrument (such as a harmonica or accordion) to fit a pattern where blow notes repeat a sequence of C E G C (perhaps shifted to begin with E or with G) and draw notes follow a repeating sequence of D F A B (perhaps correspondingly shifted).

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