Re: [Harp-L] Three Standard Embouchures

[Arthur Jennings <arturojennings@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sugar Blue, to name but one example , is a full-time tongue-blocker who overblows.

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]
<harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 ")
>>>