Re: [Harp-L] Three Standard Embouchures

[Mike Wilbur <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This whole conversation reminds me of the famous European Jazz player ( most would recognize the name )  I asked him what position he played a certain Jazz number in and 
he said " you Americans all worry about positions and I just play the harmonica "

Sure made me chuckle....still it would be nice to have a simplified set of Embouchure terms
everyone agreed on.....good luck with that



Mike Wilbur

> On Aug 25, 2014, at 2:08 PM, "Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> (Winslow Yerxa)->"SPAH does not make rules about what harmonica players call stuff.".
> 
> The usual method for handling of this type of situation would be (for example) for the International Association of Widget Manufacturers to produce some Standard Glossary of terms relevant to the Widget industry and the users of Widgets; each manufacturer of Widgets and their users would then be using the same vernacular. You might choose to use some other vernacular to describe Widgets, but many people in the industry would just ignore your babel.
> 
> I did suggest that SPAH might establish such standards because I was unaware of any Association of Harmonica Manufacturers.
> 
> /Neil
>