Is Harmonica Mugig 10-hole 20-tone Blues Harp similar to the others in view of blows and draws?
I've just started learning to play (diatonic) harmonica, and here is my Mugig 10-hole 20-tone Blues Harp:
Its instruction manual illustrates the note pattern as the following:
But it actually contradicts the blow-draw pattern explained in most of the books including this one that says:
For example, books often say that the first hole's notes are C and D in the case of blowing and drawing, respectively; however, my harmonica instruction claims something completely reversed!
When I try simple songs based on what the instruction says, the sound is not exactly what it should be; however, I'm a beginner and my solfege skills are poor, so I can not exactly find out whether the instruction manual is correct or not.
Does anybody have any experience to use such kind of harmonica?
Update 1:
Here are some tests:
Blow hole 1
Draw hole 1
Blow hole 2
Draw hole 2
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That is odd!
I've never seen that before in my life. According to your booklet, it is exactly the same as a normal harmonica, except completely backwards.
My guess would be the arrows in the book are wrong rather than the harmonica, but who knows.
Could you post a recording of simply playing a chord, blowing, and then drawing? Doesn't have to be accurate or single notes or anything, just picking it up and blowing then inhaling will be enough to tell.
Update: I can tell from your recording that this is indeed correct: the booklet is just printed wrong and the harmonica has the normal layout. That being said, it's also not perfectly in tune and probably is never going to sound 100% right. If you have fun with this harmonica, then buy yourself a proper instrument, they're not crazy expensive, and you'll be able to enjoy something that will sound in tune.
For example, hohner special 20s are fantastic. A hohner big river is fine, and suzuki/lee oskar both make decent affordable harmonicas. Easttop now makes very affordable chinese-made harmonicas: they are the first Chinese company to make a decent blues harp, and in fact they're very good. What you have, unfortunately, is more of a toy than an instrument.
This seems to be Richter tuning, where the bottom octave is designed to provide two triads - I blowing, and V drawing. The middle and top part provide full diatonic scale notes, but missing the B draw at the very top. All this provides a simple triad of C in this case when blowing anywhere, with a G9 sound sucking above the bottom octave. So, apart from the bottom octave and the top two notes, it's just like an ordinary mouth organ.
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