[Harp-L] two questions from newbie



Igor,

Frank makes an excellent point about embouchure. Keep your oral cavity (mouth and jaw) RELAXED to form a large resonance chamber, use a DEEP embouchure and produce all air pressure from deep in the diaphragm. Here is an excerpt from an old post that some others have said they found helpful:

If a lip purse player can get the front of the harp in against the corners of the mouth, tilt the holes down slightly, drop the lower jaw and keep it relaxed, and produce air from the diaphragm, ALL notes will be easier to play, tone will be consistently deeper and fatter and you won't have to adjust lip position. It also helps to make as large an opening with the lips as physically possible consistent with getting a single note, which requires that the inside of the mouth adjacent to the edge of the lips grip the harmonica with the lips being actually not in contact with the harmonica except at the corners of the mouth--this has sometimes been referred to as "fish mouth".

JP




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