flutter

["James Thurgood" <thurgood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:56:05 -0000
> From: "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  Flutter/was TB
>
> - --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "James Thurgood"
> <thurgood@xxxx> wrote:
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> BTW, I've stumbled onto another way to produce a flutter-effect -
> what if anything is actually fluttering I don't know, but it feels
> like
> the roof of the mouth, rather than the tongue, is somehow fluttering.
> It creates a slightly different sound, with a bit of a growl to it.
>
> - - thurg
>
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> Thurg - is it at the back of the roof? If so, that's the soft palate.
> It's the same thing that flaps in the breeze when you snore. I've
> heard Joe Filisko use this to devastating effect when imitiating the
> growling of old-time jazz trumpet players, in combination with using
> a cup-uncup effect produced with a tiny tin cup.
>
> Winslow
>
Winslow -

My ex- told me I snore, too.  I didn't believe a word of it, but now
you're telling me the same thing ... it must be true.

I think you're right about the soft palate.  Now does it confuse the issue
if I state that I get this effect on draw notes only?  In another post,
someone
describes what seems to be the same effect but on blow notes - I never tried
it on blows.  Same thing with what I've been taking to be the "true
flutter" -
the technique I use involves draws only (the "reverse raspberry"? the
"flutter truth"?).
Haven't heard Joe Filisko, but I'm wondering if he does the flutter on both
blow
and draw?

- - thurg