[Harp-L] Leaf Musician

[Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

I recall someone suggesting (partly in jest) that a single-reed harmonica was needed with all the notes obtained by bending.   This fellow has accomplished that with a tree leaf instead of a brass reed.  It is a demonstration of the power of embouchure.

When I was a kid, we would blow a blade of grass held between our thumbs and make a squawk whose pitch we could change by varying the tension.  However, it was nothing like this.

I speculate that he would have a terrific tone if he ever took up the harmonica.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dTeQwf488&feature=related

Vern