[Harp-L] XB-40 Tuning (was: Re: XB Altered tunings--Melody Maker)

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you carefully re-read Rick Dempster's post, you can see that he's 
asking about the factory, stock tuning of an XB-40, not any retuned 
variation.  I've changed the subject of the post to help try and 
eliminate the confusion. 

Also, this is not about *how* it's done -- that part's been made 
pretty clear -- but rather about *why* it's done, why there's a 
difference between the depth of the bend on the lower blow E versus 
the two upper ones.  

In my offlist reply to Rick Dempster, I stated that I didn't even 
know this was the case, despite the fact that I own one.  Perhaps if 
Rick Epping isn't here to offer an explanation, Winslow or another 
XB-40 affecianado will help us out.  

-tim


Fernando Bresslau wrote:
> Actually, the guy who retuned the harmonica will know the answer,
> since he is the one who retuned (or didn't) the auxiliary reeds of 
> the XB-melody. As Rick E. said, you can tune them to what you like 
> (in the physical possible range of course), to get bends as low or 
> as shallow as you need.
>
> At 07:07 PM 9/6/2006, Rick Dempster wrote:
> >         Can you see any logic in the fact that the 'E's on a 'C'
> >Richter tuned XB, bend only a semitone on hole 2 while  the 'E's 
> >at 5 and 8 bend a whole tone?