[Harp-L] Bending at the back of the throat

[Dave Murray <dlmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, G wrote:
> Something I've really benefited from is learning to bend when tongue
> blocking - bending at the back of the throat, instead of the front of
> your tongue (from your uvula forward) - this year its really started to
> come together for me - and as I've written here before, I've endevoured
> to use that bending technique when using pucker because I enjoy the
> tone.  The benefit, which was unexpected is I can now play pucker and
> articulate and use effects that pucker offers WHILE bending at the same
> time.  This is something that will aid with bent key notes. I continue
> to work on intonation of bends, and have been working on tongue blocked
> blow bends in the upper register and some basic overblows using tongue
> block - which I can demonstrate given enough attempts, but lacks any
> control and hardly practical for me to incorporate in my playing yet.


I know that I'm asking the impossible, but would you attempt to describe 
how you do that?

Peace and music,
Dave