Re: [Harp-L] New Electric Harmonica

[Ronnie Schreiber <autothreads@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge,

Your analogy to an electric guitar is apt.

The harp/mic combination is more like an acoustic guitar or violin with 
a piezo mic,with the added acoustics of cupping the mic, and physically 
overdriving the mic diaphram to get that grease we love. We call it 
electric but it's really an instrument with a microphone or some other 
kind of physical transducer that converts sound waves to electricity. 
The Turboharp ELX and my device take a different approach, use the reeds 
themselves to one way or another generate an electrical signal.

On 11/8/2014 11:31 PM, Jorge Simonian wrote:
> Yeah, but is the same thing. The idea of the electric harp is a concept completely different.
> With a mic, no mather what, you can still feedback.
> The idea of the electric harp is the same as the electric guitar.
> The electric harp is to the harp/mic combination as the electric guitar is to the acustic guitar.
>
> Jorge Simonian.
>
> Enviado desde mi iPad
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> > El 08/11/2014, a las 23:27, Robert Hale<robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  escribiÃ:
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> > On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Ronnie Schreiber<autothreads@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
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> > > amplifying harmonica with mics is hardly an ideal solution. Feedback and
> > > impedance issues limit volume and tone.
> > >        
> >
> > I moved from bullets and amps, to Fireball V and RP355. No impedance
> > mis-match or feedback problems here. Have you met Richard Hunter?
> >
> > Robert Hale
> > Serious Honkage in Arizona
> > youtube.com/DUKEofWAIL
> > DUKEofWAIL.com
> >      
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