Re: [Harp-L] RE: blown out harps

[Tom Albanese <reedwrecker@xxxxxxxxx>]

I remember him saying that but I could never quite figure out what he meant
by it. How do you match the resonance of your vocal tract with the note you
are playing? Would you practice singing the note in pitch, observe the shape
of your resonant chamber and then attempt to duplicate it when playing each
note? Or is it something different? Maybe it would be helpful to imagine
yourself singing each note as you play it on the harmonica.

t.a.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:46 AM, fjm <bad_hat@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>> Mike Curtis used to say that getting the vocal tract resonance in line
>> with the harmonica reeds was what mattered.  He used the analogy of
>> impedance mismatch to describe it.  A reed has a natural frequency it will
>> vibrate at.  There is also a range that it will vibrate in if coerced. I'm
>> wondering if people who break reeds are using amplitude as a technique to
>> achieve bent notes? For my money matching the resonance of your vocal tract
>> to the note you're trying to sound is much more efficient.  fjm
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