Re: [Harp-L] Over-Draw?... Or Harmonica Pathology...

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I assume he did not have a half-valved harp, but I'll mention this for Bradford's future reference... on a half valved harp, that's not only feasible, it's easy as the valve isolates that reed.
   
  Back to the question, what sounds more feasible to me is that he hit the Db, thus played a flatted five instead of a flatted third.  I think if he hit that Db it would sound really good in that situation and make a man say "hmmm," which evidently this did. 
   
  Dave 
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Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  An overdraw in Hole 7 of a C harp would give you Db. Bb does not occur anywhere on a standard C harp as an overdraw.

You may have been able to somehow inactivate the blow reed, thereby allowing the draw reed to act as an isolated reed, and then persuade the isolated draw B reed to go down in pitch to Bb. Unlikely, but not completely impossible.

Winslow

--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Bradford Trainham 
wrote:
From: Bradford Trainham 

Subject: [Harp-L] Over-Draw?... Or Harmonica Pathology...
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 3:47 PM

So... I've always wanted to work up some arrangement of the old James Brown
song Night Train...
I've figured out bits and pieces of it..., and even compensated for the
dual-voicings from the two saxes??...
But something crazy happened today. 
At one point in the song, the horns are filling out part of a g-seven chord
with the emphasis being on a high b with a less prominent f underneath it. 
I actually got that to happen on a c harp, second position and I followed it
up with an eighth note passage g-b-a-g-e-d-g-c-b... The second g being an
octave lower than the g at the start of the little run/pattern/passage... 
On the original recording, the next passage has a b-flat sounding while the
band is playing a c-7 followed again by a g and then a repeat of the little
run...
And now my question... In a momentary lapse, I forgot that we aren't
supposed to be able to get bends out of draw 7... And I... Somehow got that
b-flat up there... 
So...
1... Is an over-draw possible on hole 7?
If yes..., would the desired pitch be b-flat?
If no..., My God! What have I done????
Brad (I'm sure pathology will get the most votes.) Trainham

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