Re: [Harp-L] challenged by Chromatic

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steeltown Sam, 
   
  I'm right with ya, man. I've had the same problem. I'm a puckerer, but I do tongue block octaves all the time. On the chromatic, I have the exact same problem. Now, I haven't gotten this down pat yet, but it seems to be working some...
  My hypothesis: 
  Tongue ain't wide enough to block like I usually do on a diatonic, but the tongue gets narrower at the tip, so I reckoned if I stuck the chrom in there a good ways and kind of curl the tongue down and use the wider part of the tongue a little ways back from the tip, I'd have a wider tongue to use than at the tip. It seems to be working.
   
  This also seems to work well on diatonics. You can flutter much easier, cause it's easier to just drop that part of the tongue down to hit a chord than it is to pull the tongue back. 
   
  Dave
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Dave Payne Sr. 
  Elk River Harmonicas
  www.elkriverharmonicas.com 

samblancato <samblancato@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  After following a recent thread on chromatics, I wanted to post about what I
am finding most frustrating right now - tongue-blocking octaves. I am a TB
diatonic player; I play TB in about 80% of my playing. But when I try to do
octaves on the chromatic I'm flummoxed. I just can't make a tight fit, let
alone even get clean octaves. So much of what I want to do is in octaves;
it just doesn't sound right to my ear without those fat octave tones.



Sam Blancato, Pittsburgh

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