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From: Pat Missin
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 00:14:04
Subject: Re: Chromatic harmonicas without valves

Frank Brault wrote:
>
>Does anyone have thoughts on the Tombo Unica Formal vs. the Tombo S-50?
>I understand that both are valveless as there is a separate channel for each
>note. However, the Unica Formal has a slide and the S-50 does not. It
>would seem that the S-50 would be very air tight. Is it more difficult to
>play without the slide? The distance between notes would appear to be
>allmost twice as far when compared to a normal chromatic like the Hohner
>270. Are the Tombo's both difficult to master?

When the HarpStart scheme in the UK in full swing, David Michelsen and
Norman Ives taught kids to play a variety of different harmonicas,
including the S-50. They foudn that those who had already learned to play
the "regular" chrom ahd to spen some time adjusting to the S-50, but those
that had never previously played any sort of harmonica, learned the S-50 as
quickly as the others learned the regular chrom. The lack of valves makes
some nice things possible. If anyone is interested, I can email them a copy
of an brief article I wrote about them.

-- Pat.