Re: [Harp-L] Playing above hole 7 on Koch harp



I do, you get into some funky runs when you improvise. It's backwards, yes, but a natural continuation of the blow plate C,E,G repeating. If you go up there concentrating on the Cs C#, etc., it's really sweet and it's familiar territory, and in first position, it's safe territory, two of those notes are part of the I chord and the IV chord. So, on the C,E, and G, there are six notes counting the slide, so there is plenty to do there without ever hitting a draw. I don't use the draws so much past 8. On the Seydel Richter, I go up to hole 12 quite a bit.
My Seydel Richter laid around for a year and I wasn't very fond of it, I couldn't do much with it, but I was trying to play in second position and it was like beating my head on a wall because the notes weren't there. Discovering first position earlier this month was an ephiphany for me. I've been concentrating on chromatic for about three months now, and about three weeks ago, I was sitting around trying to figure out how to do some Borrah Minevitch and Johnny Puleo licks on a regular chromatic. It wasn't working for me, worse, it appeared impossible, so I was a bit discouraged. 
About three weeks ago, I was watching this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AVVad2xmY4 and noticed something I hadn't noticed before. Around 3:05, Ernie Morris hands Borrah a chromatic and Borrah does a line, then (somebody tell me who this was) somebody hands him a double bass. He plays a line on the bass, hands it off, resumes the chromatic. He chugs a C chord at 3:18 and runs the chord all the way to the top. That's when it hit me, it was the same chord all the way up. He's playing a Richter. Since then, I've noticed a lot more Richter on this stuff, even stuff Johnny Puleo was doing in the 60s, I can hear Richter. I wish I had better resolution to watch than just this youtube quality, but I've looked really closely. He actually is playing on of his own Borrah Minevitch Technique Tone Richter chromatics, which were valveless and had an external spring, long after Hohner had gone internal spring and solo tuned on the 260. I've got one of those, I deemed
 it unplayable without a lot of work, now it's playable. I imagine Borrah did some things to his harps as well to improve it. 

The really cool thing is on holes 1-6, you hit the draw notes, push in the slide and you've got in-tune overblow notes. On chords, you have C, G, Dm, C#, G#, D#m... I've not calculated the double stops, but there's a bundle. 

Here's the video I made on the RIchter
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2a-JPtZb0M
 
I'm looking for video responses to it of folks playing Richter chroms. I have had zero thus far. Would really like to have some. _________________________________
Dave Payne Sr. 
Elk River Harmonicas
www.elkriverharmonicas.com 




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From: Clayton Gary Lehmann <hqr@xxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 7:13:41 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Playing above hole 7 on Koch harp

Hi--
Dave Payne recently posted on the Richter slide or Koch instrument. I am
curious; do many play above hole 7 with this tuning?
The pattern is reversed . . .
Gary

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