RE: I never hear Lee Oskar...
>On the major diatonic 3-hole draw, if I play long sustained notes bent down
>in distinctive half-steps to the last half-step above the blow note, I get a
>shrill overtone that sounds to my ear like 2 octaves above the fundamental
[...]
>Example: on a 3-hole draw with an F harp... the notes E, Eb, and D all sound
>purely, then when I play the Db... I get the overtone.
>
>Is it...
>A) my mouth is weird
>B) others have also experienced a similar problem?
>or
>C) both of the above
Bob I think that you just discovered Howard Levy's infamous OverBends! You
can get the same kind of shrill harmonic note on the 6 blow and a couple of
others. It is weird at first especially when you don't know what is
happening. The first time I hit an overblow I thought I blew a reed.
To get it you do as if you were going to blow bend, but the tongue creates a
very thin passage of air at the back of the throat and it just pops at you.
Someone correct me if I am wrong on this one.
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Christian Laferriere
Gatineau, Quebec
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