[Harp-L] two questions from newbie

["John F. Potts" <hvyj@xxxxxxx>]

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