WOW! Bending a string a minor 3rd (a step and a half) sounds like an awful lot to me.

Since I use a nylon string classic (and I don't do blues, not because I don't like the blues, but because I'm lousy at it), I don't even try to bend strings. Bur I know a fair number of poeple who do blues and such (steel strings), and when they bend notes, they usually shoot for about a half-step at most--not because that's the specific pitch they want, but to play a note that's sort of "in the cracks between the keys."

Why, specifically, a step and a half?

Don Firth