Sound comparison.

I like them all. But I cannot afford them all! The Concerto was my least favorite. Maybe that is why I sold mine years ago. Thanks for the comparisons. Yesterday I ordered an Unsere Lieblinge octave in C to go along with the G. Just the 32 reed model. It costs much less than the longer version and has enough notes for many songs.
The steel reed Sailor sounded strong. The Sailor and Skydiver have become two of my favorites.
I tried this song on a standard 10 hole Lee Oskar. It sounded nice. I was able to get many octaves also by blocking the center two holes and playing out both corners of my mouth on that harp. Because the chords coincide with the melody so often it seems that this song makes any harmonica sound like an orchestra.
Your version sounded correct to me. I was playing from sheet music at first but I'm not sure if the score was accurate. I like that low chord you dropped in occasionally. Here are tabs of my version:
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
*5 *5 *5 -(234) *5 -(345) *6 7 *6 5
-*4 *5 -*5 -6 6 -(345) *5* ** *
*5 *5 *5 -(234) *5 -(345) *6 7 *6 5
-*4 *5 -*5 -6 6 -(345) *5* ** *
>*6 6 -*6 7* -7 -6 *6 5*
5 5 -*4 -*6 *6 -*5 *5* **
>*6 6 -*6 7* -7 -6 *6 7*
(234) -(234) 5* 6 -*5 -(234) *5* ** *
- means draw, otherwise blow is default. * means to add chord. Add by lifting tongue after note is played if * is after the note. If * is before note then start with tongue off and playing a chord and then put tongue on harp for single note. If (xxx) then play notes together and don't use tongue for rhythm. In this case the chord is stopped by the breath direction change.

I did not like the concerto nor the puck. My preference was the sextet or the Echo but that may be bacause I mainly play Hohner tremolo's. I personally used to p
Refer to play echo's but after playing a sextet for a bit I began to prefer them. Maybe this is just because I got used to it or it may be that i became better at playing it after a bit. I also play Seydel Skydivers, especially if I wish to blend in as the sextet can be a bit raucous.

Hi Rex, I had wondered about slightly re-tuning some of my sextets to be a bit drier tuned but probably not as dry as the skydivers. Maybe that compromise would work for me in most situations.

Now this is a great idea. Playing the same song on different harps. You can really hear the difference. And yes I agree the hohners sound best. Now I have a seydel club octave in D and I love it. I wonder if the reason why the Seydel concerto is so “lacking” is because it’s a high G? High harps can sound squeaky to me.

hi, I've done this today and I think it fits in the subject especially as I use a Seydel concerto in A (the lowest) in the second song:
(my youtube text):

this is a suite of 3 belgian dances:
-la vieille maclotte
-amoureuse
-allemande de vieuxville

played amplified with 3 different octave harmonicas:
-Kongsheng 2440 in C
-Seydel concerto in A
-Seydel Club in D

with some of my percussions collection in the background

hope you'll like it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBiV-TJrbrc

thanks matt.
you do like the sound of the club? I love to play it in accoustic, but this time I thought the recording didn't do it justice as it doesn't have the lush lows of the other two.

I, too, was surprised by the outcome. There may be several reasons. Yes, the Concerto has no "normal" G, but only high G, that my indeed be part of the explanation. Another one may be that I found it difficult to adapt to the Knittlinger construction after having played several harmonicas in Viennese construction. A third part of the explanation may be, that all the other harmonicas are unvalved, but the Concerto is valved. So I may have blown a bit to hard into the Concerto, causing a somewhat harsher sound than necessary.