Re: [Harp-L] chromatic advice

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe;
        have you got one, or have you ever owned one, and if so, what do/did you make of 'em. Wonder if it's worth trying to pick up one second hand. Woddyareckon?
RD

>>> joe leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> 15/09/2010 11:03 >>>
Too expensive to justify the low sales..at the time. And Hohner  
didn't want to keep paying Cham-Ber the royalties for the invention.  
NOW they would sell a ton of them.

On Sep 14, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Rick Dempster wrote:

> Winslow;
>               Why did Hohner cease making the CBH - I mean the one  
> with the plastic 'doors' instead of the slide- I never owned one,  
> but when I've briefly played one, it seemed pretty airtight, and  
> that was a  4 octave, wasn't it?
> RD
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>>>> Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> 15/09/2010 0:19 >>>
> The Sliver Concerto is three octaves because it was the brainchild  
> of Tommy Reilly, who was a three-octave player.
> Doug became a three-octave player after playing four-octave  
> instruments for awhile. He found his true preference, and when he  
> and Bobbie Giordano went to redesign the chromatic harmonica from  
> the ground up, they designed to that preference.  I once asked him  
> whether they'd be making a four-octave instrument, as my main  
> hesitation in getting a Renny - aside from the cost - was my  
> preference four a four-octave instrument, and he admitted that they  
> did't know enough about building four octave instruments to  
> successfully take on such a project.
> And there's the rub. Smaller instruments are easier to build. Ten- 
> hole chromatic harmonicas are more airtight that 12-holers, and 12- 
> holers are by nature more airtight than 16-holers. If you just add  
> two or four more holes without doing the additional work of  
> figuring out how to compensate for the longer slide and the greater  
> surface areas that contact other areas, you're going to have  
> problems. But Hohner, Hering, and Suzuki, and now Bends, have all,  
> in my estimation, dealt with those problems and produce fine four- 
> octave chromatic harmonicas.
> Winslow
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> Winslow Yerxa
> Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
> Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
> Resident expert, bluesharmonica.com
> Columnist, harmonicasessions.com
>
> --- On Tue, 9/14/10, MundHarp@xxxxxxx <MundHarp@xxxxxxx> wrote
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> On the other hand... Why did Doug Tate build his "Renaissance",
> perhaps the "ultimate" chromatic harmonica, as a 3 octave? And why  
> is Hohner's
> flagship harmonica, the "Silver Concerto" only a 12 hole harp?
>
> John "Whiteboy" Walden
> Cebu City
> Philippines
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