[Lowboy]

Hi Gayle,

Welcome to the forum. There are many people working on note bending in free reed instruments. It is a very complex subject and not an easy thing to do on a melodica or harmonica for that matter.

I am finding the harmonica websites provide a wealth of information that can be applied to the melodica.

Here is an article on free reed instruments and note bending:

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This forum as a search function that can root out posts on bending and tuning. I will try to answer you questions on bending in another reply to one of your posts.

Regards,

Lowboy