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Lee Oskar Harmonica, Melody Maker Key of C

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Style: Melody Maker™ - Key of C


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  • Melody maker
  • Blue label

Description

Melody makers are the best Harps available for playing standard single-note melodies. They're great for playing country, R&B, pop, world beat, African and reggae. This tuning makes it easier to play many songs...That can be difficult, or impossible, to play on a standard major diatonic...In Cross harp. All of the notes that were missing on the major diatonic are right there on the melody maker! These harmonicas provide a complete major scale, in Cross harp, for playing exact melody without bending. Yet, the draw notes can still be bent for that bluesy feeling! Melody makers are designed to be played in Cross harp (draw), not straight harp (blow). in Cross harp, melodies can be played with an expressive, fluid style that is extremely difficult to achieve in straight harp.


Color: Blue


Brand: Lee Oskar Harmonicas


Instrument Key: C


Style: Melody Maker™ - Key of C


Item Weight: 0.02 Pounds


Item Dimensions LxWxH: 2.2 x 5 x 2.2 inches


Item Weight: 0.32 ounces


Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 5 x 2.2 inches


Item model number: Lee Oskar 1910MM-C Harmonica


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: July 16, 2004


Color Name: Blue


Musical Style: Pop


Instrument Key: C


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    • Maybe Lee Oskar could use some music lessons...
Style: Melody Maker™ - Key of E
This harp sounds great, and I like the fact that it doesn't waste a reed by doubling that low fifth like other diatonics. However, I do wish somebody at the company would pick up a copy of "Music Theory For Dummies" and brush up on their Modes. A respectable musical instrument maker just can't go around screwing up the info they give their customers this badly. This would be an easy 5 stars if not for the incorrect labeling and the glossy fold-up sheet full of misinformation it includes. The worst part is that the left end of the comb is clearly labeled "1st F#m [d]" to indicate that in first position it plays F# Dorian, which is just plain wrong. A Melody Maker in E plays A Lydian, not F# Dorian. And the "m" is doubly inaccurate because not only is Dorian NOT "minor" [though it's grouped in the "minor family" since the only difference is a major sixth], but since it's Lydian it's in the "Major family" [the same except for an augmented fourth]. Dorian is "Greensleeves", "Scarborough Fair", and "Eleanor Rigby"; Lydian is the theme from _The Simpsons_. Even a tin-eared musophobe would never confuse the two. It DOES play F# Dorian in 4th position [like you'd use to play minor on a standard harp], though according to the info sheet it plays C# minor there; don't know where they got that one. At least they figured out 3rd position correctly [starting from 4 draw, which plays Dorian on a regular Major harp], though mostly just jazz musicians [and apparently Lee Oskar] call Mixolydian mode by the alternate term "Dominant." [Mixo is Major with a minor seventh, what you actually get when playing a regular harp in 2nd position and good for a lot of blues and rock.] In jazz they call it "dominant" because a Mixolydian tonic 7th chord is dominant, like the fifth chord in a major scale; Jazz musicians don't even START calling them chords until they're at least a 7th, but there's only one 7th chord that's even possible on a diatonic harmonica, and while it just happens to be that dominant low fifth, it's only dominant on a standard major-tuned harp anyway! The rest of the info on alternate tunings is just as bad. The Natural Minor harpa are marked correctly only for 1st and 2nd postion.. 3rd is labeled "Major" but actually plays Phrygian a wholetone above 1st [Phrygian is like minor except that it uses an actual minor second; "minor" uses a Major second], while 4th position plays in Locrian mode a wholetone above 2nd, rather than the "Dominant" it claims. [Locrian is something of an oddball mode fitting neither "family" that's been declared useless by just about every composer for 2 thousand years, though I rather like it. Aristotle declared that it "makes men sad and grave" and I have to agree; it's particularly mournful when played descending as the ancient Greeks generally did.] And I don't know WHY, unlike the Melody Maker, they didn't bother giving it a proper sixth insteady of just doubling the fifth on 3 blow, especially since they focus on playing 2nd position from 2 draw rather than 6 blow as I've always done. It would have made them about twice as desirable the way I figure it. And then there's the Harmonic Minors, labeled correctly ONLY in 1st postition. The harmonic minor scale's Major seventh, right after the minor sixth, makes it simply incompatible with ANY other mode, so ALL other positions are mislabeled. I'm sure someone could find something clever to do with other positions anyway, since there are after all lots of "exotic" scales that don't fit the standard western modes, but the other three columns of that chart are still just plain all wrong.] [Hopefully this Wall O' Text will help someone figure out what they're actually getting with their order... unfortunately I'm really disinclined to copypasta it to EVERY OTHER Lee Oscar Melody Maker, Natural Minor or Harmonic Minor harmonica and reedplate. 58 separate listings is just too much even for me.] ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2015 by Gearald Becker
    • Makes me wonder why I EVER buy any other brand
Style: Melody Maker™ - Key of A
See, this is what I'm talking about right here. I've been blowing harp on and off for decades, and as a "pretty good" harp player I experience the same frustrations as everyone else who's not a virtuoso: the limitations of the instrument itself, and the demands of technique to make it sound good. Lee Oskar harps take almost all of that frustration away. The tone is killer... warm and reedy and funky, but never harsh or brassy/tinny. These harps bend themselves... on holes where I can't get a bend at all on a Hohner or a Seydel or a Bushman, I get a semitone on a LO, and on holes where I get a semitone on the other brands I can nail a solid whole step consistently on a LO. So tone and ease of playing are a given. The icing on the cake is the availability of some truly groovy Lee tunings that normally would cost you the price of a custom-built harp (hundreds of dollars). This Melody Maker has allowed me to play the part I have heard in my head on one of my band's songs for months, but simply couldn't pull out of a standard diatonic harp in a graceful, musical way. Yeah, I coulda spent years figuring out how to overblow the elusive notes... but why? I've now got my 2nd and 4th steps that sound out with clarity and authority, I can play a cool major root chord to a minor 2nd degree chord (which is just sexy), and all of the usual bends are there as I expect them to be (although in slightly different places, which takes some getting used to but is actually pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it). Love. Love. Love. This. Harp. I would not recommend this as a first harp for a beginner... start with a standard diatonic in C and learn to play it with some skill. Then, when you're tired of banging your head against the wall, order up a Melody Maker, sit down in your favorite rocking chair or porch swing, and prepare to have your mind opened in the most wonderful way. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015 by K. E. Taylor
    • Perfect harp for a lot of songs
Style: Melody Maker™ - Key of G
Compared to a regular (Richter) tuning, the third blow hole is a tone higher instead of repeating the 2nd draw note (the key note in 2nd position) and the 5th draw is a half note higher (although you can bend it down) which lays out perfectly for a whole bunch of songs and changes the chords you can play. Just be aware that, like Oskar's natural minors, they call it a G (the second position key) rather than a C. Annoying, but you can deal with it. When we learn a new song in G I will often switch between a regular C and this in 2nd position and a G in 1st position to see which one works best. Haven't bought any other keys (unlike the natural minors which I love for a lot of songs) as it seems like the rock, pop, country and folk songs that lay out well with this harp seem to always be in "The People's Key of G". Being able to play in the 2nd position enables you to bend most of the bluesy notes if you so choose, although these are NOT made for standard blues songs. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2018 by Dr. Pepper
    • Best you can get . End of story.
Style: Melody Maker™ - Key of E
I love these harps , I have been playing since I was 12 (50 yr.’s) when I grabbed a harp from my dads top shelf and started playing , putting it back before he got home . He knew , he liked the idea that I thought he didn’t know . These newer types are so very interesting to me as a songwriter now , the melody maker sounds like an accordion to me when your making those larger chords with these , always brings new ideas into the song . I have played in a million blues bands and to tell you the true , I got bored with the same riffs that standard harps give you. , to me it’s the soul you give the harp not how many notes you play , blues traveler stuck it in a jet engine as far as I’m concerned , if your beginning : key of D standard will get you those blues bends A is good too. Later get one of these . ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2019 by billy freeze

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