Re: [Harp-L] Re: Correctly Naming a More Ordinary Blowing Technique



I mis-spoke/wrote/counted.  My question was inadvertently answered
though.  It's the high ones... 7-10 like Jimmy Reed used to do. 
Sorry...  Take everything I say or ask with lots... and lots... of
salt!!
Brad Trainham
On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:43:46 -0600, you wrote:

>"So...  If over-blowing raises the pitch... what is the name of the
>ordinary technique, available to us on even the most tetanus-infested
>shoddily-produced diatonic that will lower say the 5 hole anywhere
>from a half to a whole step downward.
>I discovered that one a long time ago by accident, got better at it
>once I realized Jimmy Reed was using it... not by accident, but I've
>never known what that occultism-of-harp is called.
>Brad Trainham"
>
>If you can blow-bend hole 5 down in pitch by a whole step, you are using a 
>mighty weird tuning.  The only time I've heard anything like that from one 
>of my harps was right before the reed broke, when it no longer behaves 
>normally.
>
>Jonathan Metts 
>
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