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Harmonica tab to Diddley bow/Canjo
Before my recent discovery that guitar is a lot easier to play if you get rid of five of the strings, the only instrument I ever learned to play was the harmonica. There are tons of songs at www.Harptabs.com and I got to thinking that it should be easy enough to adapt harmonica tabs to playing on a one stringer.
It wasn't quite as straightforward as I had thought it would be. For starters, I ran out of frets before I ran out of harmonica holes. The 9 and 10 holes aren't used all that often, but losing 8 is an inconvenience.
Second, any harmonica notes that require bending to reach, I'm not sure if there's any way to reach them on a diatonic fretboard.
But anyway, here's basic conversion for harmonica to a diatonic fretboard:
1 = 0
-1 = 1
2 = 2
-2 = 4
3 = 4
-3 = 6
4 = 7
-4 = 8
5 = 9
-5 = 10
6 = 11
-6 = 12
7 = 14
-7 = 13
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