Re: [Harp-L] Why did I resist the chromatic for so long????

["Roscoe Catania" <rjcataniajr@xxxxxxxxx>]

*Joe-just inherited a bunch of harps and one of the chromatics has a couple
of curled wind savers. There are some strange vibrations. Should I to break
out the jack-hammer?
Roscoe
*
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Michael Meehan wrote:
>
>  I just got my new chromatic in the mail, and WOW. It is AWESOME. I could
>> kick myself for resisting it for so long, out of pure stubbornness.
>>  Never again will I have to look at a piece of music and fear that
>> super-crucial-to-the-melody 3 draw single or triple bend that ya gotta hold
>> steady for 4 beats...
>>  Got a question, though. The one blow makes a bit of a buzz, or rattle,
>> somewhere in the harp (can't tell exactly where it is coming from). Is this
>> something I am doing wrong?
>>
>
> No, the wind savers need time to 'settle in'. They need to be warmed up and
> then they settle down. If it persists, the wind saver may have a curl in it.
> But give it a chance.
>
>
>  I remember when I first started playing diatonic, and I thought my one
>> draw was broken, but it turned out to be technique.
>>  Thanks a lot, everyone!~
>>
>>
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roscoe