Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:22:25 EDT From: Moandabl~ol.com Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:=20Levy=20Proves=20It=20Can=20Be=20Done=20=A0? In a message dated 7/21/02 3:45:22 PM, MellifluousSna~ol.com writes:
<< so I need to ask this question: can an overblown note be held for several bars of a slow tune with a soft, sweet vibrato? It seems to me that the overblown notes' tendencies towards flatness, squealing, or unstability would make it difficult to hold an overblown note in a ballad. >>
You would only have to listen to Chris Michalek once to have the answer to that question. Yes it can. However, it is my opinion that once you have accomplished the overblow, the difficulty is not in holding it as much as just getting it. I am talking, of course, about oblows on a standard harp, not a Filisko. Once I have hit the overblow, I can pretty much hold it and give it some vibrato even. Some of the experts like Chris and others can bend the overblow up and down and make it sound quite "sweet". Steve "Moandabluz" Webb still a fool for the harp
