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Em tunes on 1 row G instruments
Tone Dumb Greg:
I've been thinking about getting a one row in G. Looking at the layouts I noticed there is no low E. Does this make it impractical to play tunes in Em
Steve_freereeder:
--- Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on September 14, 2017, 03:38:39 PM ---I've been thinking about getting a one row in G. Looking at the layouts I noticed there is no low E. Does this make it impractical to play tunes in Em?
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Not necessarily. If you are thinking of getting a Hohner 114 or similar one-row four-stop box in G, it will be tuned in low G; i.e. the M reeds will be one octave below the M reeds of a standard 2-voice Pokerwork. So if your one-row is 3rd button start your push G will be G3 not G4.
This means that in low G tuning, the standard method of playing a D/G box i.e. in the chin-end octave will sound very growly, especially when you have the L reeds sounding too. One-row four-stop boxes in G sound best when played in the upper (knee-end) octave. This means that you then have that 'low' E available to you on the pull button 5.
See this layout here (except that the octave numbers are wrong! You need to subtract 1 from all the octave numbers to give you the correct value for the M and M+ reeds)
I'm fairly sure this also applies to the 2-voice Hohner 1040 1-row with 4 basses/chords in G. The third button starts on G3 not G4, so it's like the G-row of a G/C box.
jonm:
Steve is right, but in addition I had the low D pull on button 1 of my 114-G retuned to E, which gives me more flexibility.
JimmyM:
Greg, I have a 114 in G would you like to borrow it for a month or so?
Tone Dumb Greg:
--- Quote from: JimmyM on September 14, 2017, 05:36:19 PM ---Greg, I have a 114 in G would you like to borrow it for a month or so?
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That would be brilliant, I'll pm
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