Re: [Harp-L] Fire Breath and Pure Harp Video Up

["Brendan Power" <bren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Diggs wrote: "I would liked to have heard more than the 6ob. Most Golden
Melodies can give you that out of the box."

Fair points. However, you must understand a couple of things:
 
1. These videos are aimed at the general player (even a total beginner),
who goes into a music shop or online to buy a harp, and is looking for
some basic information about the chracteristics of various Suzuki
models. Most will not even have heard of overblows, let alone know what
one is. So this was really just a short explanatory introduction to the
possibilities of the Fire Breath; it's not intended to wow the experts
on Harp-L.
 
2. I'm not an overblower; I play half-valved harps. I explain this on
the video for the Fabulous diatonic:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmLx2CBVu_A
 
My point is that, if even a klutz like me can get them, an overblow
beginner would find it easier to start with the Fabulous or Fire Breath
than many other harps out of the box, and an expert overblower would be
able to get a LOT more out of them. 
 
If you're at SPAH, you can check for yourself on the overblow ability of
the Fabulous, as it will be available to try for the first time. 
 
As for the Fire Breath, you can hear a full chromatic scale on it here:
http://www.harponline.de/shop/pics/sounds/104_271.mp3 and other
impartial info from the respected Harponline website:
http://www.harponline.de/index.php?lang_id=en_GB
<http://www.harponline.de/index.php?lang_id=en_GB&js=false&page=specials
/suzuki/suzuki_mr500_01> &js=false&page=specials/suzuki/suzuki_mr500_01
 
Regards,
 
Brendan
WEB: http://www.brendan-power.com <http://www.brendan-power.com/>