> What sort of tunings do they use? I've never heard of Scottish > harmonica players.
Usually diatonic harmonicas with tremolo reeds, with several on hand (at least A/D/G) for quick key changes. It parallels the contrast between favoured melodeon types in Scottish and Irish music - Irish players often use chromatic harmonicas, which work much the same as the B/C boxes they go for, whereas Scottish players (the Shand Morino crowd excepted) use diatonic-in-fourths melodeons. Switching rows on a diatonic melodeon is like switching moothies, whereas switching rows on a B/C box is like shifting the button on a chromatic moothie. Most Scottish moothie players I know have moustaches. Which makes a chromatic moothie painful. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
