Re: [Harp-L] What is Overdraw?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is raising the note higher.

Overdraws are avaialble on a standard diatonic in HOles 7, 8, 9, and
10.

Although you are inhaling, the overdraw note is produced by the blow
reed sounding approximately a semitone higher than its standard pitch.

For instance, on a C-harp Blow 7-8-9-10 are C-E-G-C. The overdraws on
those same holes are Db-F-Ab-Db.

When did people start overdrawing specifically as opposed to
overblowing? 

The first known recorded overblow was in 1929, on Blues Birdhead's
"Mean Low Blues". 

After an interval of nearly 40 years, the overblow technique then
reappears in a cluster of recordings in 1968 and 1969 that included
Paul Oscher on a Muddy Waters record, Toots Thielemans on some easy
listening (!) recordings under his own name, and Will Scarlett's work
with Hot Tuna played entirely on a G-harp. 

Somewhere in there some overdraws might have appeared. If it did, my
guess for most likely instigator would be Will Scarlett, as he made the
most systematic investigation of the technique until Howard Levy picked
up on it a few years later.

Anybody care to give close listening to their collection of old Hot
Tuna records?

Winslow

--- Walter Joyce <wtjoyce45@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Is it bending notes lower, or is it raising the note higher, while
> drawing 
> the breathe in? If it is the latter, when did this techniques start
> to 
> develop?
> 
> Walter Joyce
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