Re: [Harp-L] An Over-Blurring Of Over-Bends And Over-Blows

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brad - 

These are simply deep blow bends. You're bending the blow note down to a note above the pitch of the draw reed, same as in Holes 8, 9, and 10.

Above Hole 6 on a standard diatonic, whether 10, 12, or 14 holes, the blow note is higher than the draw note and bends down to just below a semitone above the draw note. All the bends you describe fit that model.

The cool thing about blow bends on 12 and 14 hole harps is that as the blow and draw notes get farther and farther apart in pitch the higher up the harp you go, the deeper the bends get. Above Hole 10 you get overlapping ranges that you can exploit in interesting ways.

Winslow


--- On Sat, 8/16/08, Bradford Trainham <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Bradford Trainham <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] An Over-Blurring Of Over-Bends And Over-Blows
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, August 16, 2008, 12:09 PM

On A Hohner Marine-Band 365, in the key of c..., we find holes 11 through 14
giving us...
Hole 11 - e-blow b-draw
Hole 12 - g-blow d-draw
Hole 13 c-blow f-draw
And hole 14 - e-blow a-draw...

My question... When I blow-bend hole 11, I get... Consistently a c, which is
a half-step higher than the draw pitch. 
This would meet the requirements for the "over-blow' rule, but surely,
this
isn't a true over-blow? 
I get the same results with holes 12 through 14 on this harp, that is, what
we would expect from an over-blow, a pitch a half-step higher than the draw.

If these are really over-blows..., do any other harps exist..., anywhere
within the known universe..., that would facilitate over-blowing as easy as
this? 
(Okay, but I had to ask...)
Brad Trainham

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