Windows Harmonica Font

I finally made the decision to acquire the Fletch TrueType harmonica font designed for diatonic by Winslow Yerxa. It's available on the Harmonica Information Press website  for the meager sum of $10. I say meager because I just spent 10 minutes playing with it and it's both very complete and very intuitive. The PDF usage manual is very clear and in-depth.

Before, when I wanted to write up a tab, like I normally do once a year with the harmonica seminars I co-organise in St Aignan, I had to spend an awful lot of time in a graphic software like Corel Draw to write-up readable tabs. Now, I just have to spend 5 minutes in a text processor with Fletch. How cool is that ?

My first impressions are that it's a little bit dense in terms of how close apart the notes are, but on the other hand the  arrows make breathing patterns very apparent, which is cool. One tip for non-US or UK residents like me: make sure you switch your keyboard to US/Qwerty before using the font, cause national keyboards can really mess up the logic of the hole layout.

From now on, you can expect some tabs to appear regularly in this space!

Comments

[Winslow Yerxa]

Ben -

Fletch is closely spaced to work well with notation software, so that it will not space notes wider than necessary. If you are using a text processor, just use the space bat to put a space between tab items and it will look less crowded.

Winslow