[Harp-L] new firebreath

["Nick Kirkes" <nick.kirkes@xxxxxxxxx>]

This may have been touched on already, but I didn't see it in the archives.

I received a Suziki Firebreath yesterday, D, to try it out.  I noticed
the first three holes, blow and draw, but especially hole 3, just
don't have the volume or tone I'm used to from other harps (Golden
Melody, Pro Harps; post my own basic gapping/embossing).  I'm a noob,
so this may just be that it's a new harmonica and will take some
adjustment in the way I play those notes, but I was expecting
something that was easier to play on the low end.  There also seems to
be some "more-than-expected" leakage around the draw notes for those
holes.

For sake of not wanting to screw up a $55 harmonica, I only lightly
modified the reed plates (embossing, gapping) to see if I could
tighten it up a bit, but as I'm still new to the modification game
(among other things) I didn't do much.

Has anyone else had this experience?  Should I just go for it and work
the reed plates a little more aggressively?

That said, I can overblow holes 3 - 6 out of the box with no
modification.  I can stall reeds 7 - 10 for overdraw's but just get
silence or a light squeal instead of an overdraw note.

Thanks for the feedback and sorry if this has been discussed already.

Nick