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

[Arthur Jennings]

I think the real issue is the trade off between easy overblows and resistance to reed stalling. A harmonica that easily overblows will not suit a player who uses a lot of breath force. Even the best customs will stall if you push them too hard.

> On May 11, 2020, at 10:42 AM, Opus314 . <opus314 at xxxxx> wrote:
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> 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?
> 
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>> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:39 AM Laurent Vigouroux <
>> laurent.vigouroux at xxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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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