Fwd: [Harp-L] puckering, tongue blocking and speed

[Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I sent this offlist by mistake when I meant to send it on-list only.   
I hate when that happens.

> I wrote:
>
> > > at any speed with either  embouchure.  Ie, puckering is not  
> > > inherently faster than tb and tb is  not inherently slower.
>
> eric in miami wrote:
>
> > that's impossible.
> >
> > name one or more tb players that can play nearly as fast or with  
> > the dexterity
> > as someone like jason ricci.
>
> Just about every single traditional harmonica-band chromatic  
> player.  That's a few dozen.  Beyond that, for diatonic I'd say  
> DeFord Bailey could play just as fast (different style, but the  
> speed is not any slower).  That's off the top of my head.  If I  
> went through and found people there would be more.
>
> No, it's not impossible.  What does seem impossible is  for people  
> who are primarily used to playing pucker to imagine that what for  
> them is usually a slower embouchure, tb, (for various reasons  
> mostly due to comfort, IMO) can be trained to be just as fast.

 ()()    JR "Bulldogge" Ross
()  ()   & Snuffy, too:)
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