Re: Help with bending...

[sawyer@xxxxxxx]

Winslow Yerxa writes:
 > One familiar thing can help, the thing you do to say
 > sounds like "K" as in King, or "G" as in Gold. Your tongue and
 > your soft palate (the soft tissue that forms the roof of your
 > mouth at the back, converge to make this sound. They don't need
 > to actually touch - air has to flow through. You'll get sort of
 > "KHHHH" sound, like sucking through a straw in a nearly empty
 > glass.
 > 
 > This same action can be moved even farther back in the mouth,
 > freeing the tongue to do other things. See how far back you can
 > make this sound, without the harp. Try making sounds of coughing
 > and choking, then try to sustain them, keep an air flow going.
 > And don't gag.

Winslow,
	Is it true that you retired from a practice in dentistry
because you wanted to devote yourself to the harp full-time? 

	--Charlie