Harmonica Sound Mp3 Download

From time to time I entertain the idea of dressing up my harps with some of the cool-looking combs out there like the acrylics from Blue Moon. I really like the sound of my Seydels, though, with the maple combs, and my Crossovers with bamboo, and Special 20s with plastic. I hear people all the time claiming that comb material has a distinct impact on sound, with some saying the Marine Band has a warmer sound due to its pear wood comb, and the Special 20s being darker due to the plastic comb.

This reminds me of a panel of experts at a past SPAH convention; including David Barrett, Joe Filisko and the late Chris Michalek--charged with swapping and playing a perfect set of reed plates onto various comb materials. The audience's job was to determine if they "heard" any difference in this double blind experiment. The results were, "...changes in the harmonica's voicing were indiscernible" to the majority of the audience.

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My take away from that event confirmed my empirical bench findings. Particulary today, comb materials are more to the benefit of enhancing the player's experience, rather than the audience. The density of the comb materials "feel" different in the hands and mouths of the player. Go no farther than playing a brass comb harmonica, the weight and heft alone would make you believe that you are playing a "real" instrument. The resonance from the vibrating reeds can be sensed against our mandibles.

Many harmonica combs manufactured in the 70's, 80's, 90's, had significant imperfections. For example, Hohner Marine Band 1896 pearwood combs were cut with a dull blade, leaving striations (grooves) in the comb. This was terrible for harmonica players, because valuable air pressure escaped through the reed plate and comb mating surfaces. Just imagine trying to inflate a beach ball with a huge gash in the outer shell, you would pass out from hyperventiliation and still not inflate the ball! Same could be said for poor injection molding tooling. Combs would come out of production warped ...

So when flat, moisture and airtight custom-made combs were retrofitted onto old harmonicas, they immediately improved the playability of the harmonica--even before executing any reed plate treatment (read: flattening the draw plate, embossing, sizing, gapping, etc.). It is my contention that many players confused playing a properly manufactured comb (i.e. flat) with a custom comb for the reason of the harmonica's tone improvement.

Combs and reed plate treatment aside, I believe the most significant and easy difference a harmonica player can make in the voicing of their harmonica, is to swap out their cover plates! That's right--simple and immediate change for players and audience alike.

Okay, so I received an aftermarket acrylic comb today (I won't say who, but it's a popular line) for my Seydel 1847 Classic, and you're absolutely right. I can't discern any real difference in sound or timbre from the maple comb. I do, however, very much notice the difference in feel, and it's one I don't like.

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Looking for some help. I have a 98 civic that emits a faint harmonica sound from the engine or the transmission. I mostly hear it during acceleration but at times while cruising at speed as well. I know it not the wheels because once in a blue moon it will make the sound while at stop sign and in neutral. Not really sure but it sounds to be coming from the right side of the engine compartment. The sound will start as extremely faint and sometimes stays that way and then goes away. At other times, again it starts extremely faint then get louder but not crazy loud and then also goes away. Any ideas?

Probably a bearing getting noisy in a serpentine belt tensioner, or in one of the things driven by the belt. If this car has an air pump it could also be that. Either you or your mechanic will need to isolate the sound by using a stethescope or piece of tubing to your ear, but if you are doing it, be careful. There are things spinning around with great force under that hood.

It's very unlikely that your 2-draw or 3-draw, and/or upper register reeds (8, 9, or 10) are faulty. The odds are very high that your harmonica is working fine. All you need to do is make a small adjustment in your technique.

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I'm looking for a good blues harmonica sound. What are your opinions on the one in Thumbjam or Sampletank? Is there another iOS app that would be good for harmonica? I like that Thumbjam says it reserves and responds to CC11 (expression) whereas Sampletank doesn't have that functionality. Thanks in advance!

Thanks, @EyeOhEss. I agree that it is a hard instrument to fake as are most real world non-keyboard instruments but I have had some success with emulating it in a band setting on my SonicCell and wondered if any of the apps had a decent enough harmonica sound.

I agree, @ZenLizard that it isn't so difficult to master a real harmonica but I just need to bring it in at a few times in a couple of tunes so I don't feel like dealing with the additional mic for it. As I said in an earlier post it works great on my Roland SonicCell but I thought I might see if I could find something good enough here in iOS-world.

@Howard said:

Thanks, @AndyPlankton. I hadn't thought of the Electribe Wave but your suggestion makes me wonder if any of the additional sounds for Module or Gadget have a blues harmonica in them.

Just checked, nothing in Glasgow or Marseille, but there is a Harmonica preset in Darwin ( iM1) ...its on the iM1 card, preset number 79. I am at work so haven't listened to it to see if it sounds like the KEW one, but wouldn't mind betting it's based on the same PCM sound.

I finally listened to the Sampletank's harmonica but it doesn't cut it...and besides, Sampletank doesn't treat CC11 as expression so I stopped using it. Actually I stopped using Sampletank even though I have many of the additional instrument packs as I found a number of patches with weird artifact sounds on certain notes and also found they reused samples over too many octaves which made them sound odd. There were other problems I had in ST so I turned to a hardware sound module for a lot of my extra sounds but then I noticed that Thumbjam had a blues harmonica sound which is why I am back looking at iOS harmonica sounds and asking for opinions. I intend to play the sound from my keyboard though, @senhorlampada, so I would want to trigger the harmonica in Thumbjam from my keyboard. I am therefore more concerned with how it sounds and whether it properly responds to CC11.

@ZenEagle - I forgot about Audiolayer. I hoped to get someone who uses Thumbjam to chime in about the quality of it's harmonica but so far no one has shown up. I may in any event want a sample playback app so I guess it is time time to go down that rabbit-hole to see which sample player may work best with my workflow. Thanks!

So I went and listened to the TJ Blues harmonica.

At first I thought it sounded more like an accordion.

Then I found it has chords and a few phrases at the lower end of the scale, and single notes on the upper.

Thanks for your input, @CracklePot. I do know how to finger harmonica chords so I would just use those single notes. Does Thumbjam respond to CC11 similar to a hardware keyboard or is it treated as volume data. Sampletank allows us to use CC11 to adjust volume but I am looking for "normal" CC11 functionality, if you know what I mean.

@Soundscaper, I was thinking about a Roli 25 the other night and wondering how that might help or perhaps the CME X-Key. Thanks for the video link. That could also help with some other sounds I may want to add. Hmmm

@Howard said:

Thanks for your input, @CracklePot. I do how to finger harmonica chords so I would just use those single notes. Does Thumbjam respond to CC11 similar to a hardware keyboard or is it treated as volume data. Sampletank allows us to use CC11 to adjust volume but I am looking for "normal" CC11 functionality, if you know what I mean.

The way we harmonica players mostly like to use this pedal is to produce a pitch ONE OCTAVE BELOW the harmonica, which creates a huge fat tone. Some pedals also can create a sound -2 octaves, +1 octave, +2 octaves, but the most common sound is the dry signal plus a sound one octave below it (-1 octave).

-2 Octave Generator. This is the only pedal of those reviewed that can produce this sound and the dry signal at the same time. Actually a cool sound! (The Whammy pedal can do just -2 Octave without dry on the left side of the pedal.)

I play in a blues group, and would like to somehow integrate a decent harmonica sound. Is this even available? If it is, is it a separate machine thing, or is it a program available to put inside the keyboard?

Harmonica is as much about breath-controlled articulation as the static sample. I had set up a decent (not great) harmonica on my K2600 years ago, but the only reason it worked was the Kurz has a breath controller input for my BC3a. I doubt you'll get a convincing solution for your existing boards, and even a rompler will only make two notes or so 'come alive'...soon as you try to play a line it will be obvious you're just triggering sampled notes.

I've since gone with what I think is the ultimate live keyboard harmonica solution (short of a melodica) - a Yamaha VL70m w/ breath controller. Physically modeled harmonica that responds like the real thing to overblowing, etc. Great for Stevie tunes.

You're not adding sounds to either one of those keyboards. They are in the class of beast called romplers, rom being read only memory. You could get another keyboard, perhaps just a module to drive from one of your current boards via MIDI, or you could get a harmonica.

Why not learn how to play the real thing? You can get a great harp for $15, and it's a very easy instrument to learn how to play (though playing it well is a whole 'nother issue, as evidenced by the scores of crappy harmonica players that flock to blues jams like Hitchcock's Birds.) e24fc04721