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jfriesen
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"Big Walter Horton "Christine""
 
   I love the harp solo sections in "Christine" but having great difficulty trying to play along. It's in Key of D so when I play second position with my G diatonic I find two major problems: 1) he goes a few notes BELOW G and 2) the C (I believe) is not there and seems to me unreachable, but it is an important note in his redition.
Is anyone familiar with Christine and what Horton uses to play this?
Do I need to get a LOW G harp to play this?
Thanks,
John
ps I'll try to find a way to post a link to the mp3


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1. "RE: Big Walter Horton "Christine""
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John,

Try youtube.com and amazon.com for samples. Without hearing it, it's possible that it's being played in the 3rd Position Chicago Blues style on a 16-Hole Chromatic (that chromatic goes down to "C" below middle "C")-

http://www.harmonicalessons.com/members/chrom_blues.php

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3 posts		 Apr-22-08, 03:40 PM (PDT)
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2. "RE: Big Walter Horton "Christine""
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   Thanks Dave... I guess it could possibly be third position on a C chromatic, although somehow I don't think so. NuclearFreddie tells me that Big Walter Horton was known, in his latter years, to sometimes play a G diatonic with an extra octave added below, and that SBW2 also did that extra octave G harp thing. That would make a lot of sense to me.
Dave, do you know if such LOW G datonic harps are available and from which company? I'd really like to get one.
Thanks for your help,
John
ps. I've searched all over YouTube for Horton's version of Christine but it's not there. I have an audio version that was on a CD I purchased called "Inspiration: 22 Great Harmonica ...." (I believe it was edited by Milteau (sp?)


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3. "RE: Big Walter Horton "Christine""
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John,

I have that album, in fact it's keyed here on the site. That is a standard 10-hole diatonic in the key of "G".
http://www.harmonicalessons.com/members/cdskeyed/cds_milteau_inspiration.php

NuclearFreddie tells me that Big Walter Horton was known, in his latter years, to sometimes play a G diatonic with an extra octave added below

That's news to me. I doubt a harmonica like that existed back in his day, it's possible, but I wouldn't think so. What he may mean is that Sonny Boy II and a few others occasionally played a 12-hole low "C". So, in 2nd Position, that is the key of "G". That sucker is low and worth having one to play with if you don't already own one-
http://www.harmonicastore.com/harm_tuning.shtml

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