OFFLIST - Re: [Harp-L] re: 2hole octave: Wow!

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you're right.  I actually figured it out lastnight (after three
hours) holes 5 and 6 were the holes where it is possible.  Its
difficult but unusable in western music to my ears.  It works great
if you want to sound like Winslow in his discrete comb :-)

---- Original Message ----
From: bbhcfr@xxxxxxxx
To: rainbowjimmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] re: 2hole octave: Wow!
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:53:36 +0100 (CET)

>
>Wow I open my mail-box and I see so many post about what I have said!
>Wow! I had no ideas that it could be such a tread!! Wow!
> 
>Let's make it clear: by a chromatic scale, I mean a Full chromatic
>scale so ONE full octave!
> 
>the man I first heard doing that is Allen Holmes who is quite an
>accomplished player. technically talking, I know a bunch of folks
>(including myself) able to do that, but actually, Allen is the only
>one I heard able to make real MUSIC and not "look what I can do"
>stuff!!
> 
>I was in Occoquan when Allen talked to me about that. And He did show
>me. Let's say that we're using a standard C harp (Filisko, Bahrat or
>whatever): you get: 5b (E), 5d (F), 5ob (F#) (I can bend up that
>overblow to the Ab), then 6b (G), 6d bent (Ab), 6d (A), 6ob (Bb),
>then bend up the 6ob to the C then C# then D then Eb then E!!!
> 
>So, we get a full chromatic scale, unless you prove me that there are
>more than 12 semitones in a full octave!
> 
>The most difficult, I think, is to manage to do it. Myself, I need to
>hear the note to make it. So, I have first trained my hear on Winslow
>discrete comb. Then, I have been using my custom Golden Melody. 
>I find much easier to play that kind of stuff on low harps like G, Ab
>and A. With a Bb or B it is becoming more tough for me.
> 
>It can be useful to play that kind of things, depends of the musical
>context. I love to play slide trombons parts. Then, these bent
>overbends are very useful to reproduce the slide effect of the
>trombone.
> 
>I also assume that, like any technics, it might be not very easy, at
>the beginning to put into a musical context. But that's a matter of
>practice.
> 
>Meawhile, though harmonica limit as been put very far by Howard and
>Joe Filisko, I still strongly believe that these limits can be pushed
>further!
> 
>Look at the guitar players!!! A century ago, who would have think
>that it could be players like Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins and Doc
>Watson nowadays! But they're here! 
> 
>I find most of your reactions pretty funny! After what have done
>Howard, how can you say that something is impossible???
> 
> 
>Yours,
> 
>Froggy
> 
> 
>
>
>rainbowjimmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Chris wrote: "there's no practical reason to do this."
>
>We're musicians. We don't have to be practical.
>
>Rainbow Jimmy
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