Can someone tell me where I can find a way to translate the numerical key form written on harmonica into abc key form scale on the harmonica itself . Please.............!
Calmur
Is it that you know how to play a tune on harmonica (which holes to play) and you want to write the tune down in ABC? Should be easy enough as long as you know what notes are in each hole?
What type of harmonica are you playing? (Is it tremolo, octave, diatonic, chromatic? Which model and key?) And do you have a "crib sheet" for the notes on it?
You could try playing along with the midi file for a tune you know, one listed here in the "Tunes" section. If you're in sync with that, then you have the abc notation and standard sheet music for that tune. Should give you a good start on figuring out what you need to know.
Thanks robharper and mickray i did not explain properly what I wanted to know. I have a Hohner special 20 harmonica in key of C Diatonic The holes on the harmonica are numbered 1 - 10, what notes are those numbers in letter form. The numbers don't mean anything to me but i can read music in letter form ABCDEFG and hopefully be able to play from the lettered notes ! Where can I find this out ? As you can tell i'm new to the harmonica.
I know next to nothing about harmonicas ... but this might be worth pointing out ...
For each hole, you can produce two notes -- one by blowing air out the hole and another by drawing air in the hole.
I have a Hohner Bluesband harmonica, and the instructions point out that on the 4 hole, you blow air out to play a C and draw air in to play a D.
On the 5 hole, blow out for an E, draw in for an F. This continues through holes 6 and 7. According to my instructions, drawing in air through the 7 hole gives you a C an octave higher than the one you sounded by blowing out through the 4 hole.
So between holes 4 and 7, you have an octave. That suggests to me that on a 10-hole harmonica, you can achieve a range of about two and a half octaves.
If nothing else, this post has encouraged me to take another stab at actually learning to play the harmonica that has been gathering dust on a shelf for a few years!
Harmonica / mouthorgan
Harmonica / mouthorgan
Can someone tell me where I can find a way to translate the numerical key form written on harmonica into abc key form scale on the harmonica itself . Please.............!
Calmur
# Posted on March 19th 2007 by calmur
Re: Harmonica / mouthorgan
Is it that you know how to play a tune on harmonica (which holes to play) and you want to write the tune down in ABC? Should be easy enough as long as you know what notes are in each hole?
What type of harmonica are you playing? (Is it tremolo, octave, diatonic, chromatic? Which model and key?) And do you have a "crib sheet" for the notes on it?
# Posted on March 19th 2007 by robharper
Re: Harmonica / mouthorgan
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You could try playing along with the midi file for a tune you know, one listed here in the "Tunes" section. If you're in sync with that, then you have the abc notation and standard sheet music for that tune. Should give you a good start on figuring out what you need to know.
# Posted on March 20th 2007 by mickray
Re: Harmonica / mouthorgan
Thanks robharper and mickray i did not explain properly what I wanted to know. I have a Hohner special 20 harmonica in key of C Diatonic The holes on the harmonica are numbered 1 - 10, what notes are those numbers in letter form. The numbers don't mean anything to me but i can read music in letter form ABCDEFG and hopefully be able to play from the lettered notes ! Where can I find this out ? As you can tell i'm new to the harmonica.
# Posted on March 25th 2007 by calmur
Re: Harmonica / mouthorgan
I know next to nothing about harmonicas ... but this might be worth pointing out ...
For each hole, you can produce two notes -- one by blowing air out the hole and another by drawing air in the hole.
I have a Hohner Bluesband harmonica, and the instructions point out that on the 4 hole, you blow air out to play a C and draw air in to play a D.
On the 5 hole, blow out for an E, draw in for an F. This continues through holes 6 and 7. According to my instructions, drawing in air through the 7 hole gives you a C an octave higher than the one you sounded by blowing out through the 4 hole.
So between holes 4 and 7, you have an octave. That suggests to me that on a 10-hole harmonica, you can achieve a range of about two and a half octaves.
If nothing else, this post has encouraged me to take another stab at actually learning to play the harmonica that has been gathering dust on a shelf for a few years!
Best,
Walt
# Posted on March 25th 2007 by waltcamp45
Re: Harmonica / mouthorgan
Calmur,
Coast 2 coast harmonicas has a page that will help you
http://coast2coastmusic.com/diatonic/tune_charts.shtml
If you want to convert ABC to regular sheet music or MIDI try:
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by babut