From: hazcon <hazcon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] finding the holes :sacrilege
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 3:28 PM
Well i am going to shock some people here but for what's
it worth i have
always used hole 6 as my reference point to finding my way
around the Harp
Reasons? It is the Tonic note in on the 1 chord ,Flat 7th
on the 1V and the
3rd on the V(amongst other things) in other words you'd
be hard put to go
wrong if you hit it anywhere in a blues.A 'safe'
hole'.
It also is good hole to end on after a
run up the first
two octaves and a great place to start any noodling in the
top one.
So here's the controversial part. I use a cigarette
lighter to just slightly
roughen up(melt) the plastic around the comb hole.About 1
second or so of
flame leaves a nicely dimpled hole that is very noticeable
to your
lips/tongue but does not affect the air tightness at all.
When I first started out I used to do
this only to all
the(second position) Tonic holes and it really helped.
Of course if anyone wants to try this use
an old harp
first.
Interestingly lee ocars take a fraction
longer than Suzuki
bluesmasters* to dimple up.Never owned an SP 20.
Rick
in NZ
*just bought two and first impressions are very favourable.
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