Re: [Harp-L] Viva La Difference Tone

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Gary Lehmann wrote:

> I recently bought a custom comb for my best short harp (it's a Special 20
> in D), and it plays better--so I thought I had better tune it as best I
> could, so that the chords sound good.
> Then I put it back together and tested it, and was able to come up with the
> phenomenon you will hear if you go to Slidemeister and open the sound file
> attached to the thread with this same subject line.
> I am  blowing holes 4 and 5, so that would be D and F#. Then I am
> *bending*--except that you can't bend the blow notes of the bottom holes of
> the standard tuned harmonica--
> What I hear is the D continuing to sound, the F# bending to F and the
> subharmonic D (the note is the same as would be sounded on hole 1, but is a
> difference tone) going to Bb.
> Can someone explain to me how this is happening?
> Gary


You're a genius?
smo-joe