Re: RE: [Harp-L] Howard Levy overblows out of the box

["john" <jjthaden@xxxxxxxxx>]

Another coverplates-off thing to do is cover the blow reed with your thumb and blow. 
If you get a sound, and you probably will, it's guaranteed to be an overblow!
John Thaden

Marc Molino wrote

>First I worked on choking the blow reed (with the coverplates off). I covered the 
>4 draw reed with my thumb and blew on the 4 hole. It probably took me about 30 
>minutes to get the hang of this and I had to work on tightning the gap a little more 
>on the blow reed. After I got this, I took my thumb off the draw reed and tried to 
>get a sound. I got nothing for another 15 minutes or so. I tightened the gap on the 
>draw reed a little and I put the coverplates on held down only by my hands and 
>finally got this horrendously wonderful mix of both reeds, which I was able to 
>turn into an overblow after about 5 more minutes.