Projection

["Robert Bonfiglio" <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you practice scales and arpeggios for an hour or an hour and a half a day
trying always to play louder and faster, in 5 or six years your notice your
sound begins to open up.

After you open up your sound you begin to try to focus it and project it to
the back of the hall in a round, smooth, fat arrow.  When this focus
happens, you are"on top of your sound" and as you learn to play even louder,
the focus will become diffuse. So you learn to focus the new level and then
keep walking up the ladder in this fashion.

This is all acoustic.  In the 310 times I have now played the Villa-Lobos
Harmonica Concerto and the dozens of other Concerti performances, about 75
have been totally acoustic, even with a 60 piece orchestra.  On occasions I
have even been asked to come DOWN in volume in acoustic situations because I
was covering an instrument in the orchestra.

So it can be done, but it is a lot of work.

Harmonically yours,

Robert Bonfiglio
http://www.robertbonfiglio.com