Canadian Howard Levy

[Steve Price <sprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This morning the Canadian Broadcasting Corp broadcast a story on their 
Sunday Morning show about a Canadian who got an arts grant to study jazz 
harp with Howard Levy.  This guy had won at a 1993 German competition, 
Best Blues and Jazz Harp Player in the World--and this guy was goooood!   

More importantly, he demonstrated overblows and showed how Levy had made 
them usable that made it possible to get that many more notes 
out of a harp.  Now, I've been blowing harp about 30 years, and I've 
overblown harps all that time, but with no control, and with no idea that 
it's possible on all the unbending reeds (if I understood correctly), and 
really with no idea that it was a usable sound (it isn't in my hands).  
Did anyone catch this show?  Let's credit the Canadian harp player whose 
name I promptly forgot.  

I had asked on this list how it was possible to play blues in all twelve 
keys on one harp, and never got an answer, but this Canadian did a whole 
demonstration.  In fact, he was not very articulate in some ways.  I 
doubt non-harp players understood very much that he had to say, or heard 
the differences when he was demonstrating different styles, but he 
demonstrated overblows very clearly and did some scales to show how it 
was done.  I'm blown away by that.  I doubt I'll be able to master it, 
but I'm already working on it.  

With a wink to Mike Curtis, I'll have to wait until my next pay period 
before I can get a valved Suzuki to learn how to use bendable blows and 
all that stuff, but I can work on overblows now with my regular harps.  
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