FOUR 10-HOLE HARMONICAS

1 Standard Tuning & 3 Altered Tunings • Color-Coded for Easy Identification

Altered tunings sound very different from standard tuning which is the traditional blues/rock/country tuning. Certain reeds have been changed to create each of the altered tunings and this provides different sounds and different scales. Read about these fantastic tunings, listen to the demos and refer to the layouts and key charts to appreciate the benefits of playing them. Altered tunings make it easy to play many different kinds of music and can help to expand musical horizons. Owning a few keys of altered tunings is like adding new colors of paint to a player’s musical palette. They are fun to play!

It is very important to understand that the key label for the Melody Maker and the Natural Minor is in 2nd Position. For an explanation of 1st and 2nd Positions, Click Here

		MAJOR DIATONIC This is the Blues Harmonica. The traditional, standard tuning for playing BLUES, FOLK, ROCK, COUNTRY, POP Model # 1910 Orange Label
14 Keys (Listed low to high): Lo F, G, Ab, A, Bb, B, C, Db, D, Eb, E, F, F#, Hi G
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		MELODY MAKER Play Standard melodies in 2nd Position. COUNTRY, R&B, POP, WORLD BEAT, AFRICAN, REGGAE Not recommended for BLUES Model # 1910MM Blue Label
5 Keys (Listed low to high): C, D, E, G, A
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		NATURAL MINOR Play many kinds of minor music. MINOR BLUES, ROCK, LATIN and REGGAE Model # 1910N Green Label
12 Keys (Listed low to high): Dm, Ebm, Em, Fm, F#m, Gm, Abm, Am, Bbm, Bm, Cm, Dbm
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		HARMONIC MINOR Play many kinds of minor ethnic music. EASTERN EUROPEAN, GYPSY, YIDDISH, ASIAN, TANGO Model # 1910H Yellow Label
12 Keys (Listed low to high): Gm, Abm, Am, Bbm, Bm, Cm, Dbm, Dm, Ebm, Em, Fm, F#m
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Knowing the difference between major and minor music is important. This basic information helps players understand how to incorporate the Natural Minor and the Harmonic Minor tunings into their playing. There are many online resources that explain and demonstrate major and minor music, using various instruments.

We do not make chromatic harmonicas.