Re: [Harp-L] Chromatic playing and Hohner reed plates

[MundHarp@xxxxxxx]

Tommy Reilly almost certainly played chromatic using tongue blocking, and  
although in a pre-WW2 instruction book the great Larry Adler explained and  
recommended tongue blocking. However, when I spoke to him back in the 1990s  
he told me he mostly was a "pucker player" and only used tongue block for  
octaves and corner switching, and he also explained that he recommended 
tongue  blocking because "that is what you are supposed to do!"
Of course neither of those virtuoso musicians played "blues"
Best wishes,
John "Whiteboy" Walden
Just  now in bonnie Scotland
 
 
In a message dated 12/11/2012 9:00:19 P.M. GMT Standard Time, timeistight  
writes:

<<Toots Theilmanns and Stevie Wonder are both pucker players,  I believe 
but I
can't think of a traditional blues chromatic player who  isn't primarily a
tongue-blocker. Traditional blues chromatic playing  usually features
octaves and other split intervals, slaps and pulls that  require a
tongue-blocking embouchure.>>




On Tue,  Dec 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Lare Sattler  wrote:

<< I have a  couple of things, the first of which is: does anyone play
chromatic  harp with the tongue blocking method?  >>