[Harp-L] Bebop tuning: Much better than solo tune?

["George Leung" <gleung4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

While I was adding a section in Wikipedia on the alternate tunings for both 
bebop tuning and classical tuning for chrom, I was wondering: is there any 
purpose for the redundent C? Here's what I am thinking:

1)It does not serve much for octave, since player have to learn to play on 
five holes (blocking the middle 3 holes) in order to play octaves on other 
notes.
2)It have no help on chord construction whatsoever.

The only purpose I see the reason the redundent C exist is due to the legacy 
from the diatonic, which will make it not redunent in that case. But IMHO, 
for chromatics, a bebop tuning or even classical tuning have much more sense 
then the current tuning Solo tune we are having right now. So why didn't the 
harmonica facotries adopt, at the very least, bebop tuning for chrom?