Re: [Harp-L] Deep bends in tongue block

[Alberto Robles <grillslinger@xxxxxxxxx>]

I could never do those until I started suing the glottis for all my draw
bends. I still lip-block most of the time, and those bends sound much
stronger now, but now I have those TB bends available to me if I need them.

A.


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:48 AM, David Steenken <
id010161-3569@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Are deep bends on diatonic harps keyed below C possible? I've been tongue
> blocking for my blues/folk music for a long time, but whenever I have wanted
> to play the deep bends on draw 2 and 3 I've switched to a deep-in-the-mouth
> pucker. Is there some special technique for tongue-block bends? I know this
> has been covered before, but nonetheless what you'll think.
>
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> David Steenken
> Ayase, Japan
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