Re: [Harp-L] What happens when bending

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

This is fascinating stuff. Howard Levy did something similar when Dr. Hank  
Bahnson snuck him into Pittsburgh Hospital and used their expensive equipment 
to  film inside Howard's mouth (Hank got a slap on the wrist from the 
administrators  for this one).
 
It is possible that these films will show what happens when ------- bends  
(fill in the blank w/whoever is being filmed). What may be most interesting is  
having a few players filmed the same way to determine if the results are  
individualistic or contain some sort of common denominator.
 
 
In a message dated 10/6/2008 5:23:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

In 2002  I served as guinea pig for a group of medical researchers in  
the  ear, nose & throat department at Hamburg University Hospital who   
were investigating wind instruments. They stuck an endoscopic camera   
through my nose and down into the throat in order to film the larynx   
and pharynx from above while I played. An external camera with sound   
recording filmed neck and head from the side. On the resulting video   
it's possible to observe both bending and vibrato from inside the   
throat. On the basis of this material I would say that although the   
middle part of the tongue (which we couldn't flm at the same time)   
clearly must play an important role when bending, the activity   
definitely continues right down into the pharynx. The vocal folds   
also play a much greater role than I had anticipated in articulating   
individual notes as well as creating vibrato. I will be including   
excerpts from this film in a forthcoming instructional  DVD,

Steve

Steve  Baker
steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.stevebaker.de
www.bluesculture.com
www.youtube.com/stevebakerbluesharp

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