[Harp-L] Biting off the notes

[martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

One way of articulating on the harmonica is what I´d call "bite off the notes". For every note you´ve played you somehow deliberately close off that chamber -- I do it wth the tongue -- in a snappy fashion. Tut-tut-tut-tut, instead of tut...tut...tut, legato like. 
  Chrystal clear, I presume?
  I wonder, in a more sophisticated embouchure terminology, what would this be called? If there´s a wotd for it? (I have an unrequited love for language and like to learn new words to harass the plebeians.)
 
   This type of articulation is a technique that has a lot going for it, although it slows you down. Not particularly apparent in the case with Jason Ricci, who, I think, uses it quite a lot.
  Another player that comes to mind is Pierre Lacocque of Mississippi Heat, a formidable player, with a trumpet-like tone. Very inventive -- and distinct. No sloppy runs there. Partly, I believe, through his way of chopping off the notes in this manner.
  A scale is just a scale, but played this way it becomes ... a staccato statement.
 
  Cheers,
  Martin