Re: [Harp-L] Tongue Swishing?

[John Kerkhoven <solo_danswer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howard Levy calls it a tongue trill. By any other name...

Question for the Fosterites ... what key harp is Foster playing on Black Pine Waltz?

John

> Yes Daniel, though it's generally called 'tongue switching'. There was a youtube of Howard Levy recently, playing something in 1st position, where he used 
> that effect, which I don't believe I have heard him do before. The master was Gwen Foster. This, in my opinion, is his masterpiece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_MTNfkfBPQ 
> He has a lot more up his sleeve than tongue switching; I know, I've spent the last thirty years trying to get it all!
> RD