Harmonica Valves - Why?

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