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Thread #173463   Message #4206406
Posted By: GUEST,Steve Shaw
01-Aug-24 - 07:44 PM
Thread Name: Ashokan Farewell - A Scottish Lament (??)
Subject: RE: Ashokan Farewell - [NOT] A Scottish Lament
That Cnat in the B part is a pig for harmonica players. On a low D diatonic it's next to impossible to play with a bend or an overbend at all cleanly, especially as it's a long note. I have to resort to my D chromatic, which is what is less desirable. I can't agree that it "sounds Scottish." Scottish tunes might resort to mixolydian mode, but they don't usually chuck a nefarious accidental into an aeolian mode tune. Not usually... ;-)