Diminished tuning is a system of choosing the reeds for a
diatonic
Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize Scale (music), scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, Interval (music), intervals, Chord (music), chords, Musical note, notes, musical sty ...
wind instrument (such as a
harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...
or
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
) in which the blow notes repeat a sequence of
:
C E♭ F♯ A
and draw notes follow a repeating sequence of
:
D F G♯ B
(perhaps shifted to begin with E♭ and F, with F♯ and G♯, or with A and B).
For example:
:
See also
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Augmented tuning
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Country tuning
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Harmonic minor tuning
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Major seventh tuning
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Melody Maker tuning
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Natural minor tuning
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Paddy Richter tuning
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Richter tuning
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Solo tuning
Solo tuning is a system of choosing the reeds for a diatonic wind instrument (such as a harmonica or accordion) to fit a pattern where blow notes repeat a sequence of
: C E G C
(perhaps shifted to begin with E or with G) and draw notes follow ...
References
Musical tuning
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