Re: [Harp-L] RE: bending using tongue-block (AKA shut up already, Dennis!)



I'd figured that tongue-blocked OBs were impossible, but like all things
harp ..., well, it just takes practice.

Since posting my last question, I have managed to produce a tongue-blocked
OB on the 4 on a couple of harps. (Thanks, Ludo, for pointing me in that
direction.)

I wrote in a previous post that my tongue was in the way -- not at the tip,
but at
the back, when I try to OB with a tongue-block, because of the way I have
learned to OB without TBing.

Using the pucker method, when I OB, the back of my tongue rises to the roof
of my mouth. This is what I find difficult to do with a TB AND get the
breath control required before I block off my breath altogether.

I am finding that it's just a matter of approaching it gently. It's there,
just requires different muscle control.

May take me years to get good at it, but it's there.

Thanks Dennis, thanks Ludo, and thanks Elizabeth ... to whom I add that this
discussion actually helped me in whatever small way to discover something
new. :-) But yes, it comes down to practice. Lots of that ahead.

John






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