Fwd: [Harp-L] XB-40

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Richard Hunter 
<turtlehill@xxxx> wrote:

<snip>
The downside is that overblowing doesn't
work at all, so if you've incorporated that technique into your
thinking, your thinking needs to change.  As an example, the note you
used to get by overblowing the blow 6 hole is now available only via a
draw bend on the draw 7 hole.  

======Winslow says:

Not true. Bending Blow 6 down 2 semitones gives the same note, but 
with a stronger sound and more pitch stability. For overblowers it 
also offers the advantage of preserving breath patterns - you can 
stil play a blow bend for that note, just shifted over one hole to 
the right.

Another matter that Richard may comment on is the wider holes 
spacing. I know that he like to play wide tongue-split intervals on 
standard diatonic as do I. I find that there is a tradeoff here. 
Extremely wide intervals are harder to play, but extremely close 
tongue blocked intervals are easier - like rapidly alternating 
between, say, hole 2 Draw on the left and 4 Draw on the right with 
the tongue in the middle.