Re: [Harp-L] Three Standard Embouchures

["Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe:

I have not found any way to consistently overbend with the "Tongue-Block"; you might hit an overbend on the high-end with any embouchure, but using of the "Pucker" and precisely directing of the airflow with the tongue works consistently.

/Neil

On Friday, August 22, 2014 at 11:27 AM, "Joseph Leone" <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>On Aug 22, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Harmonicology [Neil Ashby] wrote:
>
>> This issue is often problematic, but perhaps SPAH could 
>standardize some harmonica vernacular (even though 'comping' seems 
>to have been rejected).
>> 
>> There are three standard embouchures for use with the harmonica:
>> 
>> (1) "Lip-Block" with the harmonica held at the upward angle 
>(back to front) sufficient to primarily use the lower-lip for 
>blocking holes to the side; the standard embouchure for bending on 
>the Diatonic harmonica.
>
>Standard? 
>> 
>> (2) "Pucker" with the harmonica held nearer to level (back to 
>front) than with the "Lip-Block" and often used for trilling and 
>overbends and other special effects.
>
>Like that can't be done with TB? 
>joe 'sierra' Leone
>> 
>> (3) "Tongue-Block" used generally with the Chromatic harmonica 
>_or_ with the Diatonic harmonica specifically for corner-playing 
>and octaves and various intervals and slaps and other special 
>effects.
>> 
>> /Neil (" https://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Ashby-
>II/100004575466934 ")
>>