Re: [Harp-L] The Ashby Method for Overbending

[Otto Becker <funharp@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

well,I`ve  tried it for many more than 5 minutes and I can get no 
overblow when using your method.

Since English is not my first language: could it be that I don`t 
understand what you mean when you are talking about "directing the 
airflow diagonally towards the right" ?

I can overblow and I have noticed that it makes no difference if I hold 
the harp "normally" or angled upward or downward, numbers down, or in a 
right angle to my mouth (no matter if hole number 1 is at my nose ore at 
my chin): it is always the same that I`m doing to make the overblow 
sound. So I`m asking: how could the direction of the airflow be 
important at all to make an overblow sound?

Greetings,

Otto




Am 01.11.2014 14:09, schrieb Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]:
> The "Ashby Method for Overbending" has now received positive support from several leading instructors of harmonica.
>
> [The following is (C)opyright 2014 -- All Rights Reserved by Neil Ashby II]
>
> The Ashby Method for Overbending:
>
> Now ANYBODY can learn to overbend in 5 minutes using the Ashby Method; this method will work for even the absolute novice harmonicists:
>
> "Try starting the normal hole-5 blow note GENTLY with an upward angle for the harmonica of 25 to 30 degrees [known as the lip-block embouchure] and while GENTLY continuing that note then smoothly lower the angle of the harmonica and direct the airflow diagonally towards the right; as soon as the blow reed stops ['chokes' or reaches equilibrium] then the overblow note can be easily heard."
>
> The "Ashby Method for Overbending" works equally well for overblows and overdraws; for overdraws just follow the Ashby Method as above but direct the airflow diagonally FROM the right to choke the draw reed and reveal the overdraw note.
>
> /Neil Ashby II


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