A291811 Sixteen-hole chromatic harmonica standard tone solo layout.

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 11, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 23, 24, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 35, 36, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 47, 50

Offset

1,3

Comments

On a chromatic harmonica, for every hole there are four possible tones (not considering the tones that can be produced by bending): blow, blow with slider pressed in, draw, draw with slider pressed in. On a 16-hole chromatic harmonica there are 64 possible combinations. However, a standard tone layout only has 50 different tones due to repeating tones of the same pitch.

This sequence is the number of semitones away from the root tone on a sixteen-hole chromatic harmonica, where n=1 is hole 1, blow without activation of slider; n=2 is hole 1, blow with activation of slider; n=3 is hole 1, draw without activation of slider; n=4 is hole 1, draw with activation of slider; n=5 is hole 2, blow without activation of slider; ...

Please note the change in pattern at the end of the sequence. This is due to the musical flexibility in melody playing obtained by having tones that are one and two semitones higher that the octaves of the root tone.

The sequence can be used to compute the tone layout of a sixteen-hole chromatic harmonica in standard solo tone layout in different keys, i.e., with different root tone.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..64.

Wikipedia, Chromatic harmonica

Crossrefs

Cf. A291810, A291812.

Sequence in context: A072932 A029915 A108141 * A291812 A363694 A330292

Adjacent sequences: A291808 A291809 A291810 * A291812 A291813 A291814

Keyword

nonn,hear,fini

Author

Halfdan Skjerning, Sep 01 2017

Status

approved