Re: Learning to Overblow

["Stephen Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

>From: "Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Overblowing is clearly useful to
>those that play any style of music and should not nessitate a change
>in approach. Afterall, each one of the overblow/draw notes are
>available somewhere else on the harp.
>
>I think the real issue is a modulation from our personal comfort
>zones.

I don't think I would find overblowing much use to me in traditional Irish 
tunes, particularly the fast dance tunes with fast note runs with a lot of 
rapid changes of air direction.  When I set up a harp with gaps smaller than 
I've been accustomed to I found reeds choking all over the place.  If you 
know of anyone that plays my kind of stuff with anything more than 
occasional overblows in occasional tunes I should like to hear from them.  I 
know that James Conway overblows but I'd risk betting that he doesn't do it 
much in the fast music - and a lot of the slower stuff, such as many of 
Carolan's tunes,is pretty diatonic anyway.  I don't mind modulating from my 
personal comfort zone but I don't want that to mean that I have to go back 
to square one!

Steve

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