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From: j~im.enterprise.net
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 12:27:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: Bad harp .... coincidence?? (2 Draw)

> Thu, 5 Sep 1996 Jon wrote
> My experience is that about 1/3rd of all beginners have a hard time with 2
> draw on the C harp. It sounds and feels blocked up. The harp player draws
> harder, the note seems more stuck.
> It is NOT the harp, although it can become the harp as the frustrated
> player tries to force more air through the reed.
>
>
> From my experience with teaching beginners I would say, that more than half
> of them have problems to get a good sounding tone out of 2 Draw . I work
> with C-harps and would like to know if on other harps it may be another
> hole that gives troubles.

Is my memory playing tricks on me again or did someone come up with
the answer to this about nine months ago (I can't really imagine that I
have suddenly come up with the answer myself).

As I remember it, it was decided that it was due to the larger
difference between the two notes on the two draw (always the same
difference, no matter what the key), which, on an un-valved harp, made it
very easy to bend the 2 draw. In fact it is so easy that alot of
beginers (myself included) bend the 2 draw when they are trying to play
it normaly, hence the loss of tone and volume.
However, as Douglas mentions some of his students having the same
problem on the 2 draw of a chromatic this argument would seem to fall
flat on it's face.

Jim Bassey