Re: [Harp-L] how much can a note be bent

["Ben Bouman" <fitgo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have 3 harps with this tuning.. one is a Bb, 2nd is a Eb and 3rd is a 
Seydel Big Six
All harps have steel reeds. I retuned them , didn't use any solder, just my 
Dremel and a brown/blue shofu ( polishing tool)..

No squeals and nice , smooth bends..... I love this tuning, mainly because 
of the bij dominant 7th chords om holes 1-2-3-4 blow and draw and of course 
the huge bend on hole 1.

www.beta-harps

Ben Bouman
www.beta-harps.com
www.harmonicainstituut.nl
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www.harmonicaheaven.nl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sam Blancato" <samblancato@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 10:15 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] how much can a note be bent


I have a Golden Melody that I retuned to a blues tuning I learned about on
this list that Carlos Del Junco uses on "B-Thing".  I got the tuning layout
from Overblow.com's "Scale Finder Page" - a very useful tool, I'm finding
out these days.

Anyway, this tuning (Blues Tuning variation 11.21b from Lee Oskar) has in
the #1 hole, D blow and A draw which is a pretty wide spread -3 ½ steps.  I
can bend the A draw down to Eb which is 3 steps but it's very unstable.
When you get down to Eb, you start to get low pitched squeals.  Even on the
recording I have of Del Junco playing "B Thing" he gets them.  But it still
sounds cool to get that deep a bend.  I'm guessing this is about the limit.
But there is the issue of how I dropped the reed down - solder.  Maybe if a
more stable reed were put in place of the existing F# reed - like an A reed
that you didn't have to weight - then maybe you could get it to be more
stable.

Sam Blancato, Pittsburgh

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