Re: [Harp-L] two questions from newbie

["Abner Galdos" <cdgaldos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thank you this helps.

abner
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John F. Potts 
  To: igobox@xxxxxxx 
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  Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:36 AM
  Subject: [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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