Down By The Sally Gardens (Hohner Echo Harp)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Down By The Sally Gardens, a traditional Irish tune. Played here on a Hohner Echo Harp double sided tremolo harmonica in G/C.
I was having a play on my "Echo Harp" and found myself trying this lovely Irish tune. Booted up the laptop and this is the result.
I decided to go back and re-visit this beautiful tune on the "Echo Harp" so please click the link to hear "Take 2" recorded about four years later.
• Down by the Sally Gard...
Hello Rod. Came here from the folk harmonica forum. Been listening to a few of your tunes. Great stuff! Thanks for posting these.
Thank you my friend. I have been watching some of your posts for quite a while now. It's great to be in contact.
Very nice. I've been playing the tremolo harmonica since April 2020, and I've uploaded some songs. But I had previous knowledge.
One of my favourite tunes:) great hearing your harmonica too! Guitar trills are very nice!
Thanks Bonnie, this was one of those spontaneous little moments. I intended to practice a different tune but started playing this one. It's not perfect but I decided to record and post it there and then.
@@Reeldin58 fantastic idea, it sounds great!!
✋🏼👊🏼😀❤️ Beautiful 👏👏👏🙏☮️
Mooi geluid ❤
Thank you my friend.
Nice tune on a tremolo. I like the key change too. Well played.
Hi Douglas, thanks for stopping by. This is one of my favourite tunes.
One of my favourite tunes!!!
Hi Teddybaren-Bandigerin, this is one of my favourites too. When I picked up the "Echo Harp" I was going to practice something else but I found myself having a go at this,
@@Reeldin58 That happens often to me too, with that song!
WOW! TYVM! Nicely played.
Thanks Michel. Hello from the UK
Nicely played Rod.
Thanks Jim, I'm enjoying having a bit of a dabble into the harmonica. There are some great players around who are doing things I could never hope to achieve, but having said that the tremolo harmonica is quite easy to get a simple tune out of.
I love the tones and how warm it sounds. Very beautiful. I have the chance to get one and I think I’m gonna grab it.
Hi VEXG32, if you have a chance to get one of these harmonicas then yes you really should grab it. I think the Echo Harp has it's own unique sound. To my ears it has a "Squeeze Box" kind of quality almost like an accordion. I've bought a second one since I posted this video, my cat did something unthinkable to this harmonica. I still have it but I don't really want to put it in my mouth anymore!!
What I can say is the second one sounds exactly the same as the first so I believe the quality of them is consistently good so you cant go wrong if you go for it.
@@Reeldin58Right after I commented I couldn’t let this pass so I bought it and I can’t wait to get it. I found it off eBay and it’s super clean from the pictures I’m seeing. I was looking for a decent key of G harmonica when the one I bought popped up. No joke I sat here last night for 30 minutes playing this over and over again with how impressed I was of the sound etc.
Beautiful ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much.
@@Reeldin58 Please upload some other videos
@@pituhuirem6307 Hi Pitu, I have uploaded one or two videos on the Echo Harp and I'll certainly do some more. I've been uploading for about five years now on whistles and harmonicas mainly. There are one or two on other instruments as well. I don't think of myself as one of those multi-instrumentalist types, I just dabble in a few different instruments. Sometimes I think it would have been better just to stick to one instrument and try to master it.
Love it, brill.
Hi Richard, thanks for the kind words.
Once again, SO GOOD!!
Sorry ,I must have missed this almost a year ago. I do make a point to always reply to every comment so we got there in the end.
Ein toller Klang. Hört sich echt toll an. Vielen Dank. 👍👍👍👌👌
Gibt es auch die Tabs?
Viele Grüße und vielen Dank
Manuel
Yeah what kind of setup you have there
Hi John, I record with free software called "Audacity". It's more or less a digital multitrack recorder for your Laptop. I have a go at a few different instruments, so I like to layer them up and see what I can come up with.
Well done
Thank you very much. I got a harmonica at Christmas when I was about 8 years old. It soon got forgotten in the back of a drawer because a year later I got my first guitar. A couple of years ago I decided to have another go at it.
Excellent. Keep harping
Excellent! That looks like a nice piece of kit.
This harmonica I got from ebay. The seller got it back in 1982 and it had never been played. The price sticker was still on the back of the box, £32.50 back then. You can still get them, these days they are around £90. I was really lucky no one else bid so I got it for £15. I did get one at Christmas from ebay for £5, but that one was "Shot to pieces" the G side wouldn't play and the whole thing had an awful smell so I binned it. I love this one the design hasn't changed on them since they were first made in 1927.
@@Reeldin58 It is a real beauty and has a lovely full tone. Well done for getting that. Bicarbonate of soda gets odours out of stuff but I don't know if it would damage a harmonica.
Hi Sapphire I did try to get rid of the smell, but the "Echo Harp" has a wooden comb. (That's the bit with the holes) so if you soak it, the wood will expand or contract can't remember which one, then it would be no good anyway. I took it apart to see if I could get the G side to work properly, but then I couldn't put it back together again so in the end I chucked it in the bin. After that I was a bit more careful about second hand harmonicas from ebay. I did bid on a Chromatic G harmonica and got that for under £3. That ones really good but I can't play it. It has a button on the side which means there are four notes for every hole and that's well beyond me. You can get a decent harmonica quite cheaply anyway so I don't bother looking at the second hand ones anymore.
@@Reeldin58 Great, there are a lot of different varieties out there. Is it the same as whistles with the different keys?
@@sapphirelewis1389 Yes, pretty much the same. You can get tremolo harmonicas in minor keys as well. So far I just have C,G and D. all major. I'll stick with those for now. I have five harmonicas now, three of them "doubles"
If you can play and record this 'off the cuff' then I think you can now play the harmonica!! Well done.
Thanks Ian, it wasn't quite "off the cuff" the harmonica part is the third take and I did run through a few times before I tried to record it. There's a dodgy note up at the top end but I don't think that one is on the harmonica, (if it is I couldn't find it). I did copy your idea for the pictures when I put the harmonica on the laptop. I wanted a photo of the "Echo Harp" on this, as far as I know the design hasn't changed since 1927 when they first came into production.
@@Reeldin58 I did notice the laptop theme background!
@@Ian... I'm a long way from playing the "Echo Harp" as there're intended to be played. They are tuned to play full chords at the bottom end, so you do a tongue blocking thing to get the accompaniment while you play a melody at the same time. It sounds great when you hear good players do it. I've tried,but so far got nowhere with it. I'll just have to carry on playing the accompaniment on the guitar.
Here's a young guy I think in Japan he's really good at it.ua-cam.com/video/NVKSAgYswCE/v-deo.html
@@Reeldin58 My Dad could play like that, don't know what harmonica he used though, I really must get his harmonica collection back from my daughter and see if you recognise any of the makes.
@@Ian... You should have a go if you get hold of them, you could always sit in the car out of your dog's earshot.