[Harp-L] Pure Tones

["Howard Parks" <Hparks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I attended a workshop a couple weeks back with Allan Holmes and Nicolas
Fouquet. As it was the first, we were sitting around at the start
listening to and critiquing each other's tone. I was surprised to hear a
slow, pulsing vibrato in my own "pure" tone, caused by... you guessed
it... my own heartbeat. I hadn't really noticed it before Allan pointed
it out. Last night I was reading Kim Field's book, the chapter on Tommy
Morgan, where he speaks of spending five years trying to get the
heartbeat out of his tone. My question is, has anybody talked to him
further about how he did this? Short of stopping your own heart, how do
you even begin?
 
Otherwise I guess I'm going to have to live with it...
 
Howard Parks