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The LowRider is a Major Diatonic, tuned exactly like the standard Blues tuning players already know.<\/p>\n<h3>What the Open Cover Plate Does<\/h3>\n<p>Cover plates shape how a harmonica projects. The LowRider&#8217;s are wider and more open than the standard Lee Oskar covers, which lets the sound out more freely and changes both the tone and the physical feel of playing.<\/p>\n<p>This is a genuine design change rather than a finish. In more than forty years of building harmonicas around interchangeable parts, it is the first time Lee Oskar has altered the structure of the instrument itself.<\/p>\n<h3>Fifty Years of &#8220;Low Rider&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Lee Oskar wrote the harmonica riff that opens &#8220;Low Rider&#8221; with his bandmates in WAR, and the song was released in 1975. Fifty years on, that hook is still one of the most recognizable few seconds in American popular music, later carried to a new audience as the theme to The George Lopez Show and feature in countless popular TV, and films. From Disneyland to rapper BBNO$, &#8220;Low Rider&#8221; endures in the social Zeitgeist of America.<\/p>\n<p>The LowRider harmonica was developed in celebration of that anniversary, and Model 1975 takes its number from the year.<\/p>\n<h3>Fully Compatible with the Lee Oskar System<\/h3>\n<p>The LowRider is part of the system, not an exception to it. Its reed plates, cover plates and comb interchange with every other Lee Oskar harmonica, so you can service it from parts you already have, fit its open covers to another body, or retune it by fitting Melody Maker, Natural Minor or Harmonic Minor <a>reed plates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That compatibility is the point. A new instrument that made your existing parts obsolete would not be a Lee Oskar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Product Details:<\/strong> Lee Oskar LowRider Harmonica, Model 1975. Major Diatonic tuning, Orange Label. Key of C only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Oskar LowRider Harmonica (Model 1975): Major Diatonic The LowRider is the first structural change to a Lee Oskar harmonica since the company was founded in 1983. 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