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Two row harmonica!
« on: March 07, 2014, 05:15:46 PM »

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Re: Two row harmonica!
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2014, 05:36:22 PM »

I've been doing this for years, although with ordinary 10-holes rather than octaves. If you put a roll of Blu-tack or similar between the two harps, it keeps them at the correct distance for you to get them far enough into your mouth for decent tone, and keeps them stuck together, which makes life much easier when you're also juggling a microphone.
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Re: Two row harmonica!
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2014, 05:37:34 PM »

Nothing new under the sun!

In Asia it's common to play two harmonicas together, tuned a semitone apart. Here's the Japanese player Akemi Iwama playing Czardas on THREE at the same time:

Akemi Iwama - Transcendental Harmonica Player SD :o

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« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2014, 06:22:01 PM »

Wow ! Steve, great idea.

I love the sound of those octave harps, I think I might need to get one......
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Re: Two row harmonica!
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2014, 02:10:40 AM »

The Seydel Concerto is a good instrument. However the octave tuning more or less precludes bending. The go would be a Paddy Richter version, so that you can play first position melodies without  bending the 3 hole to get the sixth note of the scale.

The tremolo player have astoundingly good, but not alone. I'm a judge at the Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival, Czarda is one of the standard competition pieces. So I've heard it again, and again.... and again. Often by players who approach her standard. The Asian players have remarkable facility with multiple tremolo harmonicas. I play tremolo a lot these days. But only one at a time.
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