Re: [Harp-L] Looking for a good overblow harp

[Pierre <slavio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can spend $1000 for a set of racing bike weels. Or you can spend $750 
and get almost the same quality because of diminishing returns. Of course 
it's much better to lose the 20 pounds of excess fat first.

You can try my approach if you like, start not too expensive and work your 
way up, at some point you may see that the difference is not worth the money 
for your type of playing. Then you will know.

I'm buying Turbo AXs now and I am very happy with them, but my next harp 
will be from Tim; just to see. Then perhaps one from the guild. The Turbo 
AXs are tight when you first get them, but after about 10 hours of playing, 
they are really great.

My experience with setting up stock SP20s for overblow.overdraw is that it 
is specially hard to get all reeds to respond in a linear fashion. My stock 
Turbo AX is much better than anything I ever set up (or bought). I'm never 
going back to doing it all from scratch.

BTW why is louder better, my wife and kids (and neighbours) do not want 
louder. What makes Filisko harps louder anyways? is it the covers? or does 
more responsive mean louder?

Pierre.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Lubeck" <blork@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 4:23 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Looking for a good overblow harp


> Hey list.
>    I've recently took up overblow/drawing and am looking for a harp that 
> will make this learning process much easier.  I'm only a new player to the 
> harp(1 year) but i've decided that I want to know how to overblow from the 
> begining, so that this effect eventually will hopefully become as second 
> nature at a note bend.  I know this is a strange approach to learning 
> harp, but i've already learned to overblow and this method makes sense to 
> me with alot of the new work happening in harp music.
>    Well anyway as I said i'm looking for a great overblow harp.  I've 
> owned Lee oskars(horrible for OB), Vintage 1923(great instrument but hard 
> to tame overblows on), and a special 20, my current overblow harp of 
> choice.
>    I'm willing to put some good money into either a customized harp(below 
> 100 dollars) or into another kind of stock harp.  I've learned to gap 
> reeds a bit, but I just don't have the skills to yet adjust harps on my 
> own so i'll have to keep on learning.
>    As an additional note I've read rumours on this board of a new OB 
> friendly marine band hitting the market, if this is the case does anyone 
> know when?  If the eta is definite is could be quite awhile...
> Thanks
>
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