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

[Opus314 .]

If the issues is air tightness... meaning the air gap between the reed and
the reed plate...
It is amazing that, with the precision manufacturing available today that
they can not manufacture harmonicas with tolerances tight enough to not
need tweaking.
Ditto for reed tolerances like shape, thickness, etc.
What else is there?



On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:39 AM Laurent Vigouroux <
laurent.vigouroux at xxxxx> wrote:

> Iceman wrote :
> « 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.”
> Just to be sure we talk about the same thing, I’m talking about demanding
> chromatic playing. For example this:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da3LhYpTlqA
> It’s not possible for me to play this type of things on any out of the box
> standard harp.
> And I think the better the instrument is, the better it is the for player
> trying to learn a technique. Learning to play overblows on a factory harp
> can be discouraging.
> The arkia very innovative design does bring much better sounding overblows
> and overdraws (especially the 1° and 7°) and a basic setup is done at
> factory.
> Of course, it’s not mass produced…
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