Re: [Harp-L] What happens when bending? FIBER OPTICS

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

They did that in the Bahnson experiment. What it shows is visible reed action inside the harmonica. All you can see of Howard's body is a little bit of lip and maybe tongue tip - not enough to get any idea what he's doing to make a bend happen - that's where the ultrasound comes in. 

Winslow

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


--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Dane Paul <Monsterharp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Dane Paul <Monsterharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] What happens when bending? FIBER OPTICS
> To: IcemanLE@xxxxxxx, steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 12:53 PM
> FIBER OPTICS........................If someone could drill a
> hole big enough 
> through the back of the comb of a harp to fit a  fiber
> optic fillament we 
> could see what actually happens. I have no idea what the
> smallest diamiter 
> fiber optic camera is ,but I beleive it is fairly small. If
> the hole is 
> drilled properly it would almost be self
> sealing........Just a 
> thought..........Dane Paul
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <IcemanLE@xxxxxxx>
> To: <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 6:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] What happens when bending
> 
> 
> > 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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