Re: [Harp-L] Re: Standard embouchures

[Dave Murray <dmurray110@xxxxxxx>]

I realize that I wandered into a conversation with more experienced players than myself, but until I figured out include the throat, I could not reach the bottom low hole bends on low harps.

But then putting how you bend notes into words is a near impossibility. The many tongue explanation that I heard, read and tried only worked for me on high pitched harps.

It took me so long to get the low draw bends that I came close to giving up on the harp.

It could be that what I am consciously doing with throat muscles is causing the tongue and shape of the oral cavity to make the bends unconsciously, I don't know. Something to think about while trying to improve my time perhaps.

Dave

On August 29, 2014 12:00:11 PM MST, "Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>(Dave Murray)->"Isn't the throat a part of the oral cavity?"
>
>The throat is not part of the oral cavity.
>
>>From " http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/oral cavity ":
>
>"Definition of ORAL CAVITY : the cavity of the mouth; especially : the
>part of the mouth behind the gums and teeth that is bounded above by
>the hard and soft palates and below by the tongue and by the mucous
>membrane connecting it with the inner part of the mandible".
>
>To bend the 1 or 2-draw on the low-G harmonica then you might be
>dropping of your jaw or really flattening of your tongue in the oral
>cavity (or both) but that resonant column of air stops at the back of
>the mouth [oral cavity] which is located above the throat.
>
>/Neil