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From: "John W. Sawyer"
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:22:30 -0500
Subject: RE: harp-l-digest V7 #69

> By very open playing I mean that for the amount of air you put into them
> they don't seem very responsive or have much volume.

I get very good volume from them and they're more responsive than anything
else I've tried.

> For example, I can blow or draw into a Special 20, say a chord, and I get
> that "open" harmonica sound, the sound you traditionally get, sounding
> something like an organ.
>
> With the Oskars I find I don't get that. I've also had another person use
> my Lee Oskar C, after which I washed it out, and he didn't find
> it very open
> either. He was an older gent in his 80's who played guitar and some harp
> over years. It was at a jam night I go to at a small Scottish
> bar in town.

LO tuning is optimized for single-note playing where the Marine Band and the
Hering Blues are tuned more chord-friendly. Unless you tweak the tuning,
LOs don't sound really nice chords, to my ear.

> Like I said otherwise I think they are a great harp, and I had the fortune
> to be at a session Lee Oskar himself put on at a music store in Toronto a
> couple of years ago, and really dug his playing & sound he was getting.

The main reason I play them is that they last much longer than anything else
for me. I much prefer the MB tone, but can't stand the MB. Herings are a
major improvement, but I still blow those out way too fast for my wallet.

Chon
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