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Harmonica: How to Play Bends on the Harmonica
If you play the main blow and draw notes available on a diatonic harmonica, you’ll be able to sound seven different notes (or 19 different pitches, if you count the notes that repeat). The ...
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Knots: How to Tie Bends
A bend is a knot that joins two different lines at their ends. Some bends work better than others for joining lines with certain characteristics (relative size, stiffness, and so on). Square Knot ...
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Knots: Square Knot (Reef Knot)
A bend commonly used to tie together the two ends of a single line, whether to close packages, hold a bandage in place, tie up furled sails, or secure something that’s unlikely to move much ...
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Knots: Sheet Bend
A bend used to combine ropes of different types, such as two ropes of slightly different widths. (If you need to join ropes of significantly different widths, use the more secure double sheet bend ...
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Knots: Double Sheet Bend
A more secure variant of the sheet bend, used to combine ropes of significantly different widths. To tie the double sheet bend, begin just as you would when tying a single sheet bend , then add a ...
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Knots: Double Fisherman’s Knot
Double Fisherman’s Knot A bend that can be used to join everything from fishing line to thick rope, as long as the lines being connected are the same widths. In monofilament fishing line, t ...
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Knots: Sheepshank
A bend in which a rope is tied to itself in order to shorten the rope or to isolate a weak or frayed portion of the rope. The sheepshank is tied in the bight (without using the ends of the rope). ...
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Knots: Carrick Bend
The best bend for joining very thick or stiff ropes, since you don’t need to bend the ropes sharply to make the knot. The Carrick bend is secure even when wet, and it won’t jam. Make ...
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