Re: [Harp-L] Bending blow notes

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:22 PM, JersiMuse wrote:

> Ok, I’ve learnt an important word today, thanks :-)
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> 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.

I wouldn't think you WOULD be. You are already too far advanced for these harps to add anything substantial to your already impressive arsenal.
I don't want to sound goofy here, but assuming that your videos are not 'gimmicked' or altered in any way, I can honestly say that while I haven't heard ALL the players there are in the world, I certainly can't recall anyone who can beat your expertise on these types of exercises. I would wager that there are a lot of actual studio musicians of some fairly well known name recognition that could only dream of doing what you are able to do. Am I to assume that you spend 15.88 YEARS on each of these tunes? 
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> 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.

I feel that any change you would make or try to make to your playing at THIS point in time would only serve to ruin what you have already accomplished. 
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> 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.

Yes, the choice of notes and where to put them in the logical stream is paramount. Your choices are sublime and even though you are already working with a predetermined track, you still have the wherewithall to mold them to YOUR thought patterns. 
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> 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.

Again, you have to remember that others aren't at your level. You have become one with your chosen instrument, have been sincere about investing the massive time and effort.
Zillions of other may find some grand use for these instruments. You, however, are at a point where you could do (to use an analogy) eye surgery with a chimney brick and it would still work out fine. 
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> 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.

Ha ha easy for YOU to say. And, you ARE using a premium harp..but if I had one teensie suggestion..and this is in no way a negative wave, back off the background a little bit. I was able to hear you through it all but you're better than Gordon and shouldn't have him muffling your efforts. I wanna hear THE Jerome. 
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> So personally, I’ll stick with my regular harp, customized to be airtight &
> settled to optimize the playing in all keys.
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> 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.

Going higher would only be screechy...you're doing fine as is. :)
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> I’d like to get a harmonica which proposes notes that I can’t get at all.
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> 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.

Here is the only place where I disagree. Your playing in 2.5 octaves is better than most could do on 8.4375 octaves. 
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> Please Mr Seydel, Hohner, Suzuki & others : make this possible on all your
> models ! :-)
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> Regards,
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> 
> Jerome
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> www.youtube.com/JersiMuse
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> 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
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> Something like that :-)
> 
> I would rather say airtight, but if you are playing underwater you surely
> need one which is watertight :-)
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> 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. 
> 
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> 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
> 
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> 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)
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