Fwd: RE: [Harp-L] Baritone harmonica

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

The desire for a slide baritone harmonica has been expressed by many 
people, myself included. It's *almost to the point where some 
enterprising niche harmonica manufacturer with an inclination to 
serve specialized needs might want to get involved - maybe someone in 
the Klingenthal region?

I have three baritone harmonicas of the all-blow variety. One of 
them, an obsolete Hohner Polyphonia (I forget the number - possibly 
#7) goes down to D  a 14th (i.e. nearly two octaves) below middle C. 
The lowest-pitched D reed is only a few millimeters longer and maybe 
1 mm wider than the longest reeds on a Hohner 64. This leads me to 
believe that a true baritone with responsive reeds and decent volume 
could be built into a size not much larger than a standard chromatic. 
It *might be necessary to space the holes wider due to wider reeds, 
but maybe not. Of course, trying to valve those really low reeds 
could be a chanllenge due to the wide swing - witness the "cup" 
valves Hohner uses on the lowest reeds of their 4-octave instruments.

Winslow

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Michael Peloquin" 
<peloquinharp@xxxx> wrote:

>From: "Jonathan R. Ross" <jross38@xxxx>

>For the slider bass-harp I had in mind I was going to make it
>single-reed, both for simplicity and because I prefer that sound for
>what I would want.  I was going to use the octave reed-plates to 
make an
>octave-higher version.  Again, this will probably not happen anytime
>soon.

I would love to have a true BARITONE harmonica, with a slide, 
starting two 
octaves below middle C. This would be great for playing sax & string 
quartet 
music.
JR, you can make one for me when you have a spare minute.

Michael Peloquin
http://tinyurl.com/5tpjg
http://www.harpsax.com


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