Re: [Harp-L] The beatings will continue when your ear drives your tech nique

["bbqbob917@xxxxxxxxxxx" <bbqbob917@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
In many ways, i believe he kinda got that from his mentor and teacher, George "Harmonica" Smith, who often used it on both chromatic as well as diatonic harps. I can get that effect with a perfectly tuned harp by using a slight bend in the octave.
Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
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---------- Original Message ----------
From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] The beatings will continue when your ear drives your technique
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:42:01 -0800 (PST)

Tune your octave so they don't beat. Then, if you want to, you can push the octaves out of tune as a special effect with breath pressure. But they'll be in tune as a default.

Bill Clarke may have originally come up with this from playing out-of-tune harps, but he ended up cultivating it as a technique. Now you can hear Jason Ricci and other players (Dennis Gruenling? not sure about him) doing it on purpose as an expressive effect. And you know that Neither jason nor Dennis plays out-of-tune harps if they can possibly avoid it.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Wed, 11/25/09, Wendell Jenkins <bacon-fat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Wendell Jenkins <bacon-fat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] The beatings will continue untill tuning improves
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 6:25 AM

I understand, when tuning a harmonica it's best to avoid beating of octaves. 
But I really like the way William Clarke uses a beating effect in his stuff. 
Is it the tuning,  or the technique,  bending one side of the octave ?
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