Sheet notes - air direction

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Hi everybody.

There is flute standard notation where draw (inhale) notes are shown by upper arrows. Do You think that it would be a good idea to incorporate this standard to diatonic harmonica?

Air/arrows direction
  • Yes. Its good to preserve existing standards. Inhale/draw: upper arrow. Exhale/blow: bottom arrow
  • No. This is counterintuitive to me. Inhale/draw must be bottom arrow. Exhale: upper arrow.
  • I don’t need sheetnotes. Tabulatures are better.
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Hi Jan @JanDomanski

I have not voted because none of the options would I use.

I also play the flute and I usually add harmonica tab below the notes on the flute score. I use the ‘+’ symbol for notes that I blow, the ‘-’ symbol for draw notes and the ‘<’ symbol for notes where the harmonica slide is pressed (only for harps that have a slide, of course – and also for my Seydel No Slider chromatic to indicate use of the lower row of air channels). So something like

-3<

means to draw on hole three with the slide depressed (or draw on hole 3 of the lower row on the No Slider harp).

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