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Progress on overblow
Progress on overblow
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Bluzmanze
4 posts
Aug 23, 2011
3:12 PM
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I have been trying to learn an overblow,and after searching the net and this forum I started taking every ones advice on approaches,and have made some progress on the 6 and 5 overblow,at first I could only bend the note down like an blow bend then I got the hole to choke,then I got a god awful dissonant twisted grinding metal sound,but it was raised in pitch,now every once in a while what sounds like an over blow emerges from that and have occasionally got an overblow without the preceding train wreck,and the ob lasts a couple of seconds before the next train wreck.Am I on the right track?Any advice on how to keep the OB note going and controlled?By the way the two harps I can do this on is a SP - 20 in d,and an LO in B.I don't use the B a lot,but am I in danger of blowing out the SP 20?Should I consider an OB golden Melody to continue practicing?If so what key if any would be the best to learn this technique on? recommendations and advice appreciated.
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tookatooka
2428 posts
Aug 23, 2011
3:36 PM
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I'd say the SP20 was your best bet. I don't think LO's are overblow friendly. The D is a good one to start with you DO NOT need to blow hard. So long as your tongue and mouth are contorted correctly an overblow will appear with very little breath. Try different mouth and tongue shapes like you were saying EEEESSSSS but pull your tongue back so you don't get the actual ssss sound. it will come sooner or later. Exhale from your diaphragm. You won't be able to describe how you do it.
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Last Edited by on Aug 23, 2011 3:38 PM
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arzajac
612 posts
Aug 23, 2011
4:54 PM
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No, you will not wreck your harp by bending or overbending notes. You wreck a harp by using too much breath force.
I suggest you take the coverplates off and cover the blow reed with your finger. Just occlude the slot completely. Then blow bend and hit the overblow. Get to know what shape your mouth needs to be in to hit it.
Take your finger away and try to hit the note again. If you can't, it may be that the overblow is not possible on your harp without adjustment - this is a good way to tell.
Apparently LOs overblow really well if you emboss them full-slot. I have not yet tried. I know they don't overblow at all without it because of how they are made - the reed twists (or wobbles) when you try to overbend.
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