Re: [Harp-L] playing in your mouth was: playing with your noze

[Joel Fritz <jfritz666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fernando Javier Toral wrote:

> After reading the thread about "playing with your noze", I remembered
> that some years ago,  I saw Ruben Gaitan -an argentinian harp player and
> teacher- putting the whole harp into his mouth and playing it with
> tongue blocking. I thought it was something like a circus performance,
> but the crowd liked it. Any harp-l members can recall somebody doing
> such a show?
> Fernando Toral
> Argentina
>
> _______________________________________________

Never saw anyone do it with a ten hole harp, but folk singer Sam Hinton 
often did it with a little four holer and got some decent sounds out of 
it.  Brings to mind the Three Stoges' "Disorder in the Court" where 
Curly (I think) swallows a harmonica.


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