Re: [Harp-L] Deep bends in tongue block

[Jeff roulier <jroulier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:48 AM 5/13/2009, you wrote:
> Are deep bends on diatonic harps keyed below C possible? I've been 
> tongue blocking for my blues/folk music for a long time, but 
> whenever I have wanted to play the deep bends on draw 2 and 3 I've 
> switched to a deep-in-the-mouth pucker. Is there some special 
> technique for tongue-block bends? I know this has been covered 
> before, but nonetheless what you'll think.

I tongue block everything.  I can get all the bends on holes 2 and 3 
on a low D and F using tongue-block.  At this point I find bends 
harder to do any other way.


Jeff
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