Re: [Harp-L] would this work?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, sad to say, it wouldn't work. I've tried it.

Reeds have a limit to how far they will change pitch, usually in the neighborhood of three semitones up or down. 

So let's say the high F draw reed will bend down to D and the low blow reed will bend up (in opening mode on a draw breath) to A-flat. That still leaves five semitones, from A to C#, where the reeds can't meet in pitch. Even if you could get two more semitones in bending range out of each reed, their pitches would still fail to meet and collaborate.

Winslow
 
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 From: mik jagger <harpomatic@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:40 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] would this work?
 
if we take a two harps, say low and high F, for example, switch the blow reedplate for the DRAW plate from the lower harp, flip it so that its in the "blow" position.
You'd get the same note on inhale and exhale, just a different octave, right? Do you think we'd get an octave-deep draw bends on every hole, as a result? I don't have the two identical harps an octave apart to try it, but I just wonder...