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Harmonica Valves - Why?

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00:00 Opening titles 00:18 Intro 00:52 What windsaver valves are 02:02 Reedplates, reeds, slots, and valves 03:28 How reeds work 04:07 How valves prevent air loss 05:26 How valves change blow reed volume, tone, and bending on diatonic harmonicas 07:45 Problems of valves 08:18 Warming up a valved harmonica 08:45 Chromatic harmonicas and valves 10:38 Advantages of valves on chromatics 11:58 Valves and bending on chromatic 14:14 Different qualities of single and dual reed bends 15:26 Valves and overblows 15:38 What about unvalved chromatics? 16:20 The typhoon 17:05 New valveless models from Easttop and Seydel 17:51 Easttop Forerunner (original model shown by mistake, not the 2.0 - sorry!) 19:10 Comparison with valved Easttop EAP-12 20:45 Commercial disclaimer about review instruments 21:07 Seydel NonSlider 22:53 Overblows on the Seydel NonSlider 24:24 Summary 25:31 Closing Titles

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