RE: [Harp-L] Overblow squeals

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's all about the foundation my friend. The ONLY harps I trust are
Hohners - especially if they are mod'ed by Filisko.

I've played the Asian harps that were tweaked for OB'ing and they are
not the same. You Tinus, of all people should be able to discern this
fact.



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>---- Original Message ----
>From: tinus@xxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Overblow squeals
>Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:54:14 +0200
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>>> My general feeling is if you want to be a serious OB player 
>>> then you need to use harps that work correctly out of the 
>>> box.  That's hohner and hering hamonicas.  My preference is
>Hohner.
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>>I feel that that is nonsense, if you want to be a serious overblow
>>player you have to be able to overblow and have good intonation.
>>On what harp you do that is totally irrelevant.
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>>Why would you have to use a harp that sort of works out of the box
>when
>>you can make any harp work better than that with a little work.
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>>Tinus
>>http://www.overblow.com
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