Re: [Harp-L] overblow begginner question

[Pierre <plavio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bill,

If you do it right, the sound wont change noticeably. The harp becomes more 
responsive to low pressure. Also it is easier to bend. You need a lot less 
air which is great. Heavy playing may cause a blocked feeling.

Learning to play with close gaps can take some getting use to. Its not for 
everybody; some guys like to play hard.

As an example the first harp I gapped, I gapped really really low which made 
the OBs quite easy. But honestly, the harp was not a good harp for blues 
playing after that as it would choke on blow notes. Well not quite a choke, 
just some back pressure and the sound gets muddy. Trick is to learn to play 
OBs with a wider and wider gap. My second OB harp was a Turbo AX from the 
guys at Turbo harp. I hardly had to do anything to the harp only the 3 hole. 
The nice thing with the Turbo AX is that it has a really nice even feel to 
it. The gaps go progressively up. My attempt was really lame in comparison. 
I think it like rolling cigarettes, the first 1000 are really shitty  :-)

(I don't smoke anymore)

As far as I am concerned I would never play a harp out of the box, at the 
very least, I find the 1, 2 and 3 holes too hard to play on a stock SP20. 
Way too much air goes out that way.

Its definitely an art to gap a harp perfectly, use an old harp.

Pierre.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] overblow begginner question


> When you tweak the harp for OB do you then change anything about the
> standard blow/draw or bent notes on those holes, i.e do they still sound
> like they did berore the tweak?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf
> Of Michael Peloquin
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:55 AM
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] overblow begginner question
>
>
> Like Chris implied: all Hohner handmade harps can be hit or miss. I just
> taught a student how to OB and the GM I had him buy was terrible. I 
> tweaked
> a S20 for him and he was off and running.
> IMO, MS series & Hering are similar in their OB weaknesses as the LOs &
> Huangs.
>
> Be careful, it's music.
> Have fun, it's only music.
>
> Michael Peloquin
> http://tinyurl.com/5tpjg
> http://www.harpsax.com
>
>
>
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