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Hey Larry,
Personally, I'd use a special tuning for consistency of tone. However, here's how I teach my students to get the double or full tone bend on draw 3. Play a bend on draw 4 and without breaking your breath slide down to draw 3. Be sure to keep the same muscles working as if you were playing the draw 4 bend. This works for me and for 95% of my students. There may be a tendency to want to stop and move to the 3 hole. There may also be a tendency to want to change air pressure or embouchure. So, success may not come at once. Just keep trying. Let me know how this works out.
Best,


Rich Machiz.
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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:34:55 -0600
From: Larry Haston <lhaston@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] re: a question
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fjm wrote:
  I use a special tuning for Somewhere Over the Rainbow ..............

About a week ago, I started trying to learn that one. I begin on the 4 blow.
After the first day, I decided I might have to devote one of my harps to a
special tuning for that number, all because of the "There's" note. I
can only
play by ear so to illustrate:


Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
<THERE'S> a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

I have no trouble getting the bend on the 3 draw but the intonation sucks.
(pun intended) I'm pretty sure that after a few thousand hours of
practice on
that note, the intonation will still be awful. For that reason, I'll
resort to a
retune. Anyone have any other suggestions?








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