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From: jfraz~wa.acusd.edu (john frazer)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:18:59 -0800
Subject: Re: need free advice or free dumb looks

>thank you for the advice, i thank you for pitying a newbie. actually, i
>talked to that guy who does the skunky beer commercials for budweiser, and he
>was rather disappointed. you see, John Popper is going to take over his
>duties...

ROTFLMAO

>
>at any rate, i think i have enough information to accomplish the tuning,
>provided i can execute the advice well enough, but since you offered, i would
>like to inquire further about reed gapping for overblows.

When you take the covers off, look at the space between the tip of the reed
and the open slot in blow hole 6. If you take the brass thing in the LO kit
that is flat at one end and has a curved pick at the other and gently press
up on the blow reed from the inside of the hole using the back curve of the
pick, not the sharp end, - without bending it- (I stroke it and try to use
as little force as possible), You can close that gap until it is almost
closed. If it is all the way closed it will not sound. If it is too open,
it is too hard to get the overblow. (You must achieve "balance",
Glasshoppa) The embroucher for overblowing is very similar to a blow bend.
I can now reliably get the 6 overblow.(80%) I have heard a 5 OB come out of
one of my harmonicas and I think it was a hole 8 overdraw. I am not an
expert on this but am learning. I went to SPAH last year in hopes of
getting some help and was not disappointed.

It will probably be
>wednesday before i receive the Lee oskar tool kit with the book, and i am
>willing to bet that he says something about it in there, but now i'm curious.
>
>here's to hoping I can one day make a "death sound"
>
>thanks again,

You are very welcome.

I hope this helps.

hj

- -- "He has some kind of a fantastic device that lets out a death sound!!"

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