[Harp-L] Re: full octave on 2 holes?

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxx> 
wrote:

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>>Well, I know some people able to get a full chromatic scale on two
>holes on a richter diatonic! 


That's not possible.

==============Winslow writes:

You quite sure of that, Chris? The original poster did not say a full 
OCTAVE of a chromatic scale, but let's assume that's what he meant.

Let's say you take Holes 2 and 3 of a standard C-harp.
 
Let's say you can bend Blow 2 down to D, C# or maybe C.
 
And let's say you can bend Overblow 3 up from C to something higher 
like C#, D, or Eb. 

That's a potential range of low C to high Eb - an octave and three 
semitones.

With a Discrete Comb, all these bends are possible and not terribly 
hard for an accomplished bender/overblower. 

I bet you could do it.

OK, Richter technically refers to the comb and reedplate costruction 
and the split cells of a Discrete Comb may not fir the strict 
definition. 

But a Suzuki Overdrive does fit the strict Richter definition, and it 
has the same capability.

Winslow