Re: [Harp-L] What happens when bending

["steve warner" <10reedsbent@xxxxxxxxx>]

 whether I tongue block or not, I still do the same thing with my tongue and
I assume everyone else is the same.
 After reading this post I found I don't tongue block bend on the upper
notes, only octaves.   Never even thought of it before.

Billy Boy Arnold always said that Sonny Boy 1 always called it choking,
which is exactly what it's doing as you can keep on bending until the hole's
sound is no more.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:24 PM, John F. Potts <hvyj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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