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

[Fernando Javier Toral <ftoral@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howard Chandler wrote:

> I used to do it for fun using a hohner piccolo harp --I think that's
> what they called it.   Do they still make them?  As I recall, it wasn't
> the most toneful performance, more along the lines of a parlor trick. My
> mouth's too small to get a marine band size harp in though I will
> sometimes impress beginning harp players by sticking it in my mouth
> playing a melody with the holes I can get to.  It makes my jaw tired to
> clamp down on it like that.
>
> Howard Chandler

The player I wrote about was (is) some kind of a toad, so he had no problem
in almost swallowing a MB. How stinky that instrument came out of such a
mailbox, you wouldn't like to know ...

Fernando Toral