Re: [Harp-L] (tone) the TB Police should give it a rest

["Dave Murray" <dlmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Rick In Davis" <rickindavis@xxxxxxxxx>
>  Tone in any wind instrument is generated by a resonant column of
>  air.  The most important element of good tone in harmonica playing
>  is breathing from your diaphragm and allowing the column of
>  air - all the way from your gut and lungs through your throat,
>  mouth and even nasal cavity - to vibrate and resonate.
>  If that column is pinched your tone will suffer.  But the physics
>  of good tone don't change one iota if your tongue is
>  touching the harp or not.

I've found that my ability to bend notes by manipulating the cavity in my 
mouth (tongue movement, jaw drop, etc.) ends on low notes and I must make it 
happen in the throat or even lower in that column. I'm choking the column of 
air to get the bend, and tone does change (suffer). So, how do you do those 
low bends without messing up your tone?

Peace and music,
Dave