Bebop Meisterklasse tuning on a Hohner 260 harmonica

I talk about this 10 hole chromatic harmonica I have customized to play blues in G and just generally play in the lower octave. Harmonicas can be perceived as shrill--this is a mellow little chromatic!

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• chromatic
• harmonica
• Meisterklasse
• Bebop
• 10
• hole
• Hohner
• 260

[elkriverharmonicas]

Hey Gnarly He Man! You rule!

[GaryLehmann]

Hey Dave, thanks for the encouragement!

I recommend all harp players "get under the hood".

I'm liking these little 10 hole harps too--I have retuned them to Eb, Bb, F, C, G, D, and E (not counting the other tunings), all with the bebop retune (blow hole 4 down a whole step). Four of them have the 5 on blow 1 (the Meisterklasse deal), one is normal (the G, starts on G) and two of them start on the b7 (so it's like blow four on hole 1--that's different!).

Thanks again to Harmonica John Frazer!

[knirisen]

Thanks a lot

I like retuned harmonicas

Myself II invented a special tuning called

*Kniri Tuning*221

[freereeder]

Interesting retuning, Gary. However, as one who has done plenty of retuning, I strongly advise novices to practice on an old junker before trying to "improve" a new and expensive one!!! It ain't hard to bend a reed in the literal sense).