3 responses to “How does a harmonica in "G" work?”

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  Left-T May 7th, 2010 at 18:52

  What the posters are forgetting to tell you that a harmonica in G plays in G major.
  But if someone is playing in Aminor, the G-Major is dorian mode and will still fit perfectly with no sour notes even though you have just the G harmonica.

  Not finish…… if you play in e minor….guess what ? every notes of your G harmonica will play perfectly well even if the song has A minor chords in it.

  Interesting ??? )

  Even if you have a song in the key of C major, you can still play all the notes except the F#… No big deal.

  You can also play in D major even if you don’t have the C# in a G harmonica. Again, the C is the 7th note of the scale of D. Bingo….

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  Rachel_S165 May 7th, 2010 at 18:52

  The reeds in the harmonica are tuned to produce a G major scale. You get 2 different notes out of each hole — one note when you blow through the hole and a second note when you draw or suck air through it.

  http://www.harmonica.com/

  Harmonicas are available in many different keys but they all work the same way.

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  JJ May 7th, 2010 at 18:52

  The same as a harmonica in any other key. a harmonica in G will only play the notes in the major scale, which in this case is G,A,B,C,D,E,F# and , the G an octave above the root

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