Chromatic playing on a diatonic harmonica Free

The purpose of my demonstration is to show how a diatonic harmonica player can get all the chromatic pitches on an instrument not intentionally designed for this purpose. I will recount my participation in the research done by Henry Bahnson and James Antaki in the 1990s that led to a more complete understanding of this phenomenon, and will describe my discovery of overblows and overdraws which enable a diatonic harmonica player to get the so-called missing notes, not obtainable by conventional draw and blow bending techniques. I will demonstrate conventional note-bending techniques as well, and play samples of my playing in different styles making use of these techniques—Blues, Jazz, Ethnic music, Classical, etc., on the ten hole diatonic harmonica.