Re: [Harp-L] Hohner XB40s

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

There isn't really anything like the XB-40, sad to say. For those who know how to play it, the XB-40 has a big, robust sound that dwarfs any other diatonic. The Suzuki SUB30 doesn't have the guts to compete, sad to say.
My best suggestion would be to haunt eBay.
Winslow
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      From: john coster <john.medicineb@xxxxxxxxx>
 To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
 Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 6:47 PM
 Subject: [Harp-L] Hohner XB40s
   
I got ripped off 10 days ago and lost a bunch of valuable harps. Ahrgh! My
harmonica specialty is playing traditional Celtic music or derivatives of
it, mainly on tremolo harps, sometimes chromatics. When performing as a
songwriter, I've often used xb4os. Now they're among the stolen items and
Hohner does not make them. I like the blow bends and the big sound. Can
anyone recommend anything that is similar? The Suzuki Ultima looks like a
similar idea but people don't seem to like it. By the way, I'm having a pay
what you want album sale at http://johncoster.bandcamp.com/ to help reequip
myself.Here's some of how I use harps. I know what tremolos I need, but
with the XB40s gone, I'm not sure what the best replacements would be.

Thanks, John Coster


https://johncoster.bandcamp.com/album/lost-horizon   tremolo in a song
arrangement

https://johncoster.bandcamp.com/track/five-hundred-miles golden melody in a
trad song,

XB40 for a couple of fiddle tunes
http://www.johncostermusic.com/maid-behind-th

XB40 in one of my songs at a house chttps://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaII4L3lcWE