{"id":25,"date":"2011-03-10T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimsharmonica.posterous.com\/go-tell-aunt-rhody"},"modified":"2017-03-10T14:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:17:12","slug":"go-tell-aunt-rhody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/go-tell-aunt-rhody\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Tell Aunt Rhody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning humming &#8220;Go Tell Aunt Rhody&#8221; and knew I had to try it on the harmonica with a dulcimer accompaniment.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/go-tell-aunt-rhody.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/go-tell-aunt-rhody.mp3\">https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/go-tell-aunt-rhody.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably way too early in the process to be trying a performance, but I just couldn&#8217;t resist giving it a go. It&#8217;s pretty rough. <\/p>\n<p \/> Many moons ago my brother Bob helped me build a dulcimer.<\/p>\n<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/af6b8-dulcimer.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dulcimer\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/af6b8-dulcimer.jpg?resize=500%2C121&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit tricky tuning the dulcimer to the harmonica. I found it sounded best with an &#8220;A&#8221; harmonica. <\/p>\n<p \/> I recorded this in Garageband. I did the dulcimer first and then played along with the harmonica in a second track. I edited the volume of each track and panned the dulcimer slightly left and the harmonica slightly right. I didn&#8217;t do a bunch of &#8220;takes&#8221;. This was just a practice session to figure out how to do it. <\/p>\n<p \/> Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning humming &#8220;Go Tell Aunt Rhody&#8221; and knew I had to try it on the harmonica with a dulcimer accompaniment.It was a bit tricky tuning the dulcimer to the harmonica. I found it sounded best with an &#8220;A&#8221; harmonica. I recorded this in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-harmonica","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}