RE: [Harp-L] Bending blow notes

[JersiMuse <jersimuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I?ve learnt an important word today, thanks :-)

 

Well, to be honest, I?m quite impressed by all these XB40 & SUB30
technologies, by the creativeness of some people, but I am not really
interested as a player.

The first reason is that I?ve learnt to play in all keys, & I don?t care
about the technique being used to make it possible. So I don?t want to
change all my playing now without a real good reason.

The second reason is that, to my opinion, the problem is not to be able to
play all the notes (learning overnotes is not that complicated anyway), but
to know what to do with all these new notes. Acquire musicality in all keys,
getting a good swing, developing its vocabulary etc, is much longer than
learning how to play all notes.

The third reason is that playing all the notes doesn?t mean playing in all
keys. To play in all keys, the notes should enable to easily play arpeggios,
pentatonics etc. I mean the location of each note on the instrument is very
important. On the examples I?ve seen, the changes may enable to get all the
notes, but seem to make it more complicated to play all arpeggios for
example.

I?d be really interested (and I have to say surprised) to see someone
playing correctly in all keys on a XB40 or a SUB30. Maybe I?m wrong, and
I?ll definitely give it a try, but I feel it is much more complicated than
overblowing.

 

So personally, I?ll stick with my regular harp, customized to be airtight &
settled to optimize the playing in all keys.

In fact, I?d be much more interested if the manufacturers developed more
harps with more slots, than if they totally rethink the instrument to get
notes I can already get with not much effort.

I?d like to get a harmonica which proposes notes that I can?t get at all.

 

Think about it : once you play in all keys on one instrument, your first
priority becomes to be able to play on 3 octaves in all keys.

Please Mr Seydel, Hohner, Suzuki & others : make this possible on all your
models ! :-)

 

Regards,

 

Jerome

www.youtube.com/JersiMuse

 

 

De : Zombor Kovacs [mailto:zrkovacs@xxxxxxxxx] 
Envoyé : vendredi 10 août 2012 11:55
À : JersiMuse; 'Robert Hale'
Cc : 'harp-l'
Objet : Re: [Harp-L] Bending blow notes

 

Something like that :-)

I would rather say airtight, but if you are playing underwater you surely
need one which is watertight :-)

 

The key is to have as little air escaping as possible. This is achieved by
all kinds of customizing tricks (embossing, appropriate reed curvature etc.)

But I would just go for an XB40 or a SUB30, they all have the proper
blowbends you need. If you absolutely don't want to pay for one, just
upgrade your harp with the necessary valves and there you go. 

 

 

From: JersiMuse <jersimuse@xxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Robert Hale' <ynfdwas@xxxxxxxxx>; 'Zombor Kovacs' <zrkovacs@xxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: 'harp-l' <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:33 AM
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Bending blow notes


I'd be tempted to say that when you have one, you know it :-)

I would say it is a harp where all reeds are perfectly optimized so that you
can get natural notes, bends, overnotes & multi overbends without effort &
instantly.
To do so, you need a harp where airflows are also optimized.
I miss an English word here. Do one say the harmonica is "watertight" ?
meaning the air flow is only directed to each slot, and can only go through
the reed to get out, no air going in wrong directions ?

Regards,

Jerome
www.youtube.com/JersiMuse

-----Message d'origine-----
De : harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] De la part
de Robert Hale
Envoyé : vendredi 10 août 2012 09:41
À : Zombor Kovacs
Cc : harp-l
Objet : Re: [Harp-L] Bending blow notes

> any good & well settled harp.

What is a well-settled harp, and how can I know when I have one?

Robert Hale
(from Seattle, WA today)