RE: [Harp-L] OB's

[Rob-bit <ratboyrob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cmon'............Chromatics are in NO way exempt from "Intonation" issues.....you don't just pick up a chrom and "voila!!!" it's in TUNE.
  I know MANY Chrom players who PLAY out of tune!
   
     It is affected by attack, embrochure and all the other factors that ANY harp players encounters....this NOT a piano it's a REED instrument............ 'Just Tuned' Marine bands are the worst offenders of intonation when playing single notes..so let's not PICK on and single out the Overblow technique................on HARMONICA intonation is controlled by the PLAYER !
   
    best,
  rob paparozzi
   
  

Chris Michalek <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  
c'mon now.... Just because YOU can't do them doesn't mean that it
shouldn't be done... I have never had anyone comment on my overblow
usage. All people really care about is the music and the feel you
give them when you play. 





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>---- Original Message ----
>From: harpshredder@xxxxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] OB's
>Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:52:28 -0800 (PST)
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>> Thank you Cletus.I couldn't have said it better
>>myself.In the 70's I did a lot of overblowing on
>>Golden Melody harps because they're much easier to OB
>>on and my own band mates thought I was hittin' clams !
>>My buddy guitarist Peter Atanasoff ( who toured w/
>>Butterfield and Buzzy Feiten in the early 80's) told
>>me Butter used only Marine Bands and I switched back
>>to them and cut way back on my OB's. I do enjoy
>>chromatic harp as well- intonation is a very high
>>priority w/ me. Everyone has to make their own choices
>>on these issues. Rick Epping (my first harp teacher
>>back in '71) seems pretty horrified @ the use of
>>overblows.Now if I could could just get him to push
>>the slide button on the chrome ! Rick, I kid !!
>> 
>> Chris "Hammer" Smith
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