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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:37:30 EDT
From: Hallerm~ol.com
Subject: Bends & Overblows:

I "played around" at playing the harmonica for years. It was just five years
ago that I got serious, bought some harp instructons books and learned about
the bending ability of the harp. It took me 10 months before I got my first
bend, and then only on a very tight harp. My Big River's would not bend for
me until I gave them the micropore treatment.

As for Asian harps and overblows, I also learned about overblows 5 years
ago.
Tried on Special 20's, Marine Bands, Lee Osker's, Big Rivers's and cheap
Chinese harps: With and without micropore and without and without closing
the
reed gaps. Could not get a reed to crack on any of them. Not an overblow in
the boxful.

Then last September my wife bought me a Suzuki Overdrive. I got my first
overblow a month later. Easy on the 6 blow, but hard or impossible on the
other holes. Last winter that sweet wife of mine got me four Suzuki valved
M-350s: From low F to D. Figuritively speaking I was blown away. With ease I
was able to get overblows in every hole on each of those four harps.

Seems as in the story, "Animal Farm": Some Asian harmonicas are more equal
than others.

Joe Haller