[Harp-L] Best Out-of-the-Box harp for bends & overblows?

[The Iceman]

don't know of any factory harmonica that can claim any sort of 100% consistency of anything - mass production and all....but with GM have had years of pretty good out of the box response for OB...after the fact gapping can improve that aspect, but tweaking will improve most aspects of almost any out of the box one.


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From: Laurent Vigouroux <laurent.vigouroux at xxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Best Out-of-the-Box harp for bends & overblows?

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There is no such thing as a factory out of the box harp for overblows. 
>I've had pretty good luck for years with Golden Melodies....not 100% consistent, but often enough to say that there is such a thing....
With no reed gapping at all and allowing to play chromatically? I’m surprised. But anyway, I guess that by “out of the box harp for overblows” we mean an harp model that you can consistently buy from the factory and play overblows with a good sound out of the box. I would say it is not the case for any factory harp, is it?