Running through the bends on all holes of a diatonic harmonica in the key of C. DRAW NOTES: 1: D to Db 2: G -to F 3: B -to Ab 4: D -to Db 5: F micro-bend 6: A to Ab BLOW NOTES: 7: C micro-bend 8: E to Eb 9: G to Gb 10: C to Bb
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Why doesn’t that F want to go down!? I don’t get it. I mean, I find it easier to get the D# on my E harp to come down than in the lower keys. I imagine if I had an F# harmonica, a whole step higher than an E, it would be super easy to bend its hole 3 down a whole step or more. But you move that same F tuned reed over to hole 5, and now you can’t budge it… how can this be!? 🤔
If you are referring to the 5 draw note, it's down to the mechanics and physics of bending. It's only possible to bend to a note between the blow and draw reed notes. So you can bend 3 draw way down because there's a big interval between the two reeds. However, on hole 5 there's only a half step (semitone) between the blow note and draw note, so it's only possible to get the smallest of pitch fluctuations with a bend. Hope this helps!
