[Harp-L] Re: Discovered something

["jazmaan@xxxxxxxxxxx" <dmf273@xxxxxxxxx>]

I should have clarified that I was talking about blow bends.  (But I'm sure the same is true for
draw bends.)   It doesn't matter whether you hold the harp upside down or even sideways!    I
don't have a harp handy to test it, but I wonder if the same is true for overblows?



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> Sure its trivial and probably obvious to many here.  But after decades of playing harp, I just
> discovered that if you turn the harp upside down, you still make exactly the same mouth and
> tongue
> motions to bend a note.  So its really got nothing to do with directing the airstream down even
> though it kind of feels that way in your mouth.  Doh!
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