[Harp-L] overbending, WAS: Harmo Torpedo

[JOHN HURLEY]

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> On Aug 23, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Robert Hale <robert at xxxxx> wrote:
> 
> "Overblowing is simply overbending on a blow note; overdrawing is
> overbending on a draw note."
> 
> Am I the only one who finds this explanation incomprehensible? Maybe it's
> the terms and vocabulary. I watched the video and hear notes that I do not
> reproduce. But the straw analogy seems quite mystical and unrelated to the
> physics of breath and reed.
> 
> (sing Buffalo Springfield with me...) "There's something happening here.
> What it is aint exactly clear."
> 
> I have read that Japanese harps (Lee Oskar) don't respond the same way
> German (Hohner) harps do.
> 
> Robert Hale
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