From: Ken Ficara <kenficara@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Ken Ficara <kenficara@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Regular D harps
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:25:07 -0400
And here I was thinking it was me. I have a D harp Tim Moyer made for
me, one of his T-bones, which is actually a retuned C harp, and unlike
most of the other D harps I play at jams (bluegrass jams, unamplified,
so I have to play pretty loud) the 4-draw is still sounding an E, as
opposed to the sour Eb found on the 4-draw of the D harps in my drawer
full of castaways.
Ken
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:48:51 -0300, Fernando Javier Toral
<ftoral@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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> "Ronald J. Parker" wrote
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> > Hi Gang,
> > I don't post much...just read and learn. I do agree with Pat
that it probably doesn't matter which brand of harp you play if you are
blowing out your reg. tuned D harps. Almost every harp that has gone bad
on me has been a reg. D harp. Usually I blow out the 5 hole draw or at
least make it play very flat. This has been true for Hohner MS reeds
(Blues harp), Special -20's, and MB's. Since it usually only happens on
the "D" harps, it has been interesting to follow the Harp-L members
thoughts. I had always thought is was only because I was improperly
cranking down on the 5-draw. This has been one reason I've never ordered a
harp from Joe Filisko....I was afraid I'd automatically blow out the 5-draw
with my bad technique.
> >
> > Ronny Parker
>
> The first reed I broke was the fifth draw in a MB in C. Later I learned
that I was forcing this reed with my awful draw technique, since I was not
going to get a useful bent note there. Ah, since then, I broke no other...
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