Re: [Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 110, Issue 49 combs again

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Usually people who say that have never played a flat comb with flat reedplates. It makes a huge difference in response. Air leakage is a huge factor in response. Way more than gapping. Way more than embossing. 
Gapping has a lot more to do with response than tone. Tone is mostly about air flow. Read the B-radical patent, but you can go back much farther than that. 

 
On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:20 PM, rhhammersley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The harmonica - you have a 100 pound plus person attached to a few ounces of harmonica. You shape the sound and bend etc with your vocal tract, which is the world's most flexible timbre apparatus. I'm with Vern, how exactly are the fine details of the harmonica (other than gapping etc) going to make much difference to tone?
> Richard
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