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Offline streetlegal

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Flipping the slide
« on: July 16, 2012, 02:45:01 AM »
I have now changed over to flat slide playing - my first step away from standard solo tuning. To do this on my Swan it was necessary to make a hole on the lower side of the slide to take point of the spring when I turned it over. This wasn't too difficult. First I punched a little depression on the slide with the point of a steel screw. This made it easy for me to then drill through using with my hand held rotary tool using  the pointed file attachment.

I'm still getting used to it - reversing the mind process which I learned in the first place did take a little time, but after a few days I'm enjoying it. The problems I did have were the same as the ones I had when I started learning the Chromatic and these relate to the peculiarities of the solo tuning layout. Flat slide playing may not be for those who think of the Chromatic in terms of sheet music or the piano keyboard, but for me it offers a better way ahead.
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2012, 09:55:58 AM »
Not 4 me, but whatever floats yer boat. The very idea causes intense lower abdominal pain accompanied by another  behind my left eye!  But hey, at least you won't have the problem of anyone ever wanting to borrow your harumka 8)
ha ha !
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2012, 09:14:42 PM »
Age.. I just checked your symptoms on an online medical site..... It said....If you take one litre of cranberry juice per day, it will help ease the pain of your swollen uterus.  ;D

Dr Phil

PS: I'm still waiting for an answer on the eye pain.
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2012, 10:10:55 PM »
You put cranberry juice in a pipette and…

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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2012, 07:11:22 PM »
Quote from: Philos on July 16, 2012, 09:14:42 PM
Age.. I just checked your symptoms on an online medical site..... It said....If you take one litre of cranberry juice per day, it will help ease the pain of your swollen uterus.  ;D

Dr Phil

PS: I'm still waiting for an answer on the eye pain.

Far as I know my uterus is fine and my aunt's prostate pain is now under control too, thanx!.

Went to the eye doctor, he gave me a full examination and sed I was fine and sent me a bill for 200 bux, after which, I didn't feel too good. Still have some floaters and an occasional stray spark but the light show I was experiencing went away all by itself pretty much before I ever got to the eye doctor.
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2012, 06:09:18 AM »
Floaters at our age are common. I don't notice them unless I'm in bright light and I'm thinking about them.

Tom
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2012, 12:17:25 PM »
I bought a chromatic in B since I play in Bm a lot. But obviously there's  C on the bottom. If I want to play in C (or related keys) I hold the slide in and the let out for any accidentals. So it's flat slide out tuning. Or just flat out tuning.
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2012, 02:15:01 PM »
Other tunings that will give a commonly used key: F/E; Bb/A; Eb/D. Good for flat keys, where the first listed is the slide-in first position scale. Flipping the slide gives the slide-out first position.

Unfortunately, for Irish music, there is no equivalent for D/C#, G/F# or A/G# in a factory-made harmonica (other than Seydel).

Tom
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2012, 02:06:13 AM »
Yes - flat slide playing really requires a flat slide layout. In solo tuning that means the higher key reedplate should be on top. As I have flipped my slide - slide out I am on the C# scale, slide in for C. But my aim in doing this is really to get my mind accustomed to flat slide playing, as later I am hoping to order a set of custom augmented plates with a flat slide layout.
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2012, 10:41:31 AM »
"custom augmented plates with a flat slide layout"
Hmmm . . .
|B c# | Eb  F  | G    a  |
|C d   | E  F# | Ab Bb |
?? ?? ?? ??
Interesting--
Is this it?
« Last Edit: July 20, 2012, 01:29:51 PM by Gnarly He Man »
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2012, 12:13:45 PM »
Quote from: Grizzly on July 19, 2012, 06:09:18 AM
Floaters at our age are common. I don't notice them unless I'm in bright light and I'm thinking about them.

Tom

Yeah, looks like an occasional spider running across my desk
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Re: Flipping the slide
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2012, 02:32:04 AM »
Gary - after much 'sudoku' work ??? this is the flat slide augmented/wholetone layout which I have settled on - based on Bb blow on hole 3. Here is the repeating pattern - ending Bb on hole 12 blow.

C#  F    A
D    F#  Bb
E    Ab  C
Eb  G    B
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