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  • November 12, 2014 at 5:38 pm #183511
    alan-cross
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    I have been looking around online for ways to play the blues on the lever harp but everything I find is for harmonica. I have found some information about ‘tuning’ the lever harp to the blues tuning or by manually flipping levers while playing with only one hand.

    Can anyone explain to me what ‘blues strings’ are? I really would love to play blues on my lever harp since I can’t afford a pedal harp. Any information and help would be awesome!

    Thanks

    November 13, 2014 at 8:43 am #183522
    kay-lister
    Member

    Contact Deborah Henson-Conant at Hipharp.com. She’s the blues harp expert.

    Kay

    November 13, 2014 at 9:25 am #183527
    Angela Biggs
    Member

    Alan, I’d recommend taking Deborah Henson-Conant’s “Blues: Harp Style” course. I signed up for the first session in Summer 2013 and it was amazing. It’s also intense: there’s actually a huge amount of information that goes into playing blues on the harp. Be prepared to spend a lot of time practicing. Think in terms of an online college course. 🙂

    Angela

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