Re: [Harp-L] What happens when bending

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Even with your tongue on the harp, you can move your tongue up and down to enlarge or reduce the size of the resonant chamber whose ceiling is the roof of the mouth and whose floor is the surface of the tongue. I find my tongue playing an active role when I bend with a tongue block.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5


--- On Mon, 10/6/08, John F. Potts <hvyj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: John F. Potts <hvyj@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] What happens when bending
> To: "Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 6:24 PM
> Rick,
> 	Everything you say makes perfect sense to me EXCEPT the
> role you  
> attribute to the tongue--"that the tongue works to
> change the size of  
> the resonating chamber."  If that were actually so,
> how is it that a  
> full time tongue blocker is able to bend?
> 
> 	Minor point:  After reading Steve Baker's post, i
> looked up what the  
> "pharynx" is, and it seems to me that it may
> actually  the pharynx,  
> rather than the larynx (or, perhaps, both) that are
> involved,  But my  
> experience is very much consistent with what you describe
> as  
> constricting ("choking") the air flow. That's
> a very good way to  
> describe what i think my "throat" is doing (not
> that i am the  
> standard by which technique should be judged).
> 
> 
> JP
> 
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