[Harp-L] bending

[Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Heumann wrote:

"But - upon reading your post, I immediately disassembled an A harp  
and tried both blow- and draw-bending the single reed, and discovered  
that I indeed could. SO now I'm wondering if there are 2 physically  
distinct phenomena here? I.e., the first is "2-reed-involved-bends"  
and the second is "lone reed bends"

Can you shed any light?"

I can, and so can Winslow.  Indeed, he's done so several times before.

I know this sounds mean-spirited and like a put-down, but it is not  
(well, at least not the former), however, there are some truly great  
posts on the subject of bending and the physics involved in the harp- 
l archives.  There's even a search function!

For those who don't know, the archives can be found here:

http://harp-l.org/pipermail/harp-l/

Here's a post by Winslow on the subject of bending on tremolo harps-- 
which addresses the various types of bends available on harmonicas:

http://harp-l.org/mailman/htdig/harp-l/2003-July/msg00413.html

And more:

http://harp-l.org/mailman/htdig/harp-l/2003-July/msg00341.html

These were on the first and second pages of just searching for  
"bending".

Let's see what I get when I try "Winslow and bending" (I'd do  
"bending Winslow", but while skinny he's not the most flexible guy I  
know:):

Both of those are on the first page...

And, that's just posts by Winslow.

The point is, the harp-l archives are probably the greatest collected  
thoughts on all aspects of the harmonica available.  Now, there is  
also a ton of misinformation there, but since these usually get dealt  
with during a thread, you can easily see what's what.

Perhaps I've just been on-line too long.  It seems to me that  
checking archives and Google searches are becoming a rare occurrence,  
when once such basic fieldwork was at the heart of what being online  
was all about.  Oh well.




 ()()    JR "Bulldogge" Ross
()  ()   & Snuffy, too:)
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