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News Nobel laureateNobel laureate Roger B. Myerson plays the 1847 with modified Fourkey-tuning Roger B. Myerson was decorated with a Nobel prize in the field of economics in 2007. Fortunately he found a good compensation for his most probably rare spare time: playing the harmonica!
...but as a skilled mathematician he had to find himself something very special as you can imagine - he invented his own version of a harmonica, which is based on the design of Fourkey tuning - but he "recalculated" it in order to play it with full octaves chromatically in four keys (without overblows).
This is what he wrote us about his newly developed 10-hole Fourkey variant - only available in the SEYDEL-Harp Configuarator: "Fourkey tuning can sometimes make a 10-hole harmonica seem a bit narrow, as each octave takes five holes. So I use a custom-designed Seydel harmonica as the best way to solve this narrowness problem in the 10-hole harmonica. In my custom-designed Seydel harmonica, the fourkey tuning has been slightly modified to have two complete octaves and to get a good centering (within the harmonica's 10-hole range) of both the second-position major scale and the first-position minor scale.
In my fourkey harmonica that plays the major keys of C, G, D, and A, the [blow/draw] notes in this modified fourkey tuning are: [D/E][F/F#][G/G#][A/B][C/C#][D/E][F/F#][G/G#][A/B][C/D].
(to play in E, B, F#, and C#),
(to play in G#, D#, A#, and F).
-Roger"
We at SEYDEL's will see if it is possible to make it 12-hole! Find out more about >Roger B. Myerson or listen to >"Jazzman" playing on the Fourkey on Youtube! Check out the Fourkey tuning in the SEYDEL  
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