Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:54:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Winslow Yerxa Subject: Brendan Power's all-bending harp
(I write this a couple of days ago and forgot to send it)
Brendan Power writes:
>This is an interesting thread for me, as I came up >with the same idea independently in the late 80's in >New Zealand, and made several working prototypes from >old Koch harps.
>I showed one of the Suzuki prototypes to Richard >Sleigh, Joe Filisko and Winslow in Trossingen in '97, >and Howard Levy in '99. They all liked it; not >surprisingly, because the idea of bending all reeds >naturally is very attractive, and it works.
That's right; I had forgotten (though I think I may have reported this to the list at the time). Richard was driving Brendan and me to the Stuttgart airport in the wee hours after the World Harmonica Festival in Trossingen (with Joe Filisko and possibly one other in the car) and Brendan pulled out this harp that looked like a Suzuki Promaster, except that the holes were just slightly wider (it may have been slightly longer as well; it was dark and I was pretty tired, and this was four years ago). He explained what it was and offered a blow on it. It was impressive - seemed to do everything that Rick Epping's version did, and the package was far more compact than the Koch-sized instrument that Rick had shown me a few years previously.
Winslow
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