[Harp-L] Larry's dirty little secret

[Larry Marks <larry.marks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am a decent harmonica player, good enough to attract students. I teach 
mostly diatonic, with the odd student who wants to learn chromatic or 
valved diatonic or diatonic OB/OD technique. Among other things, I teach 
classical tongue blocking technique, using the side of the tongue.

But I have a nasty little secret. When I play, I use the center of my 
tongue - the little crease down the center - to play single notes and 
adjacent-hole partial chords. I have tried to learn what I teach, but I 
am singularly unsuccessful, always backsliding to the center of my 
tongue rather than the side. I can still play off the side(s) of my 
tongue when doing splits, but for most everything else, I use the center.

So here is my question to those who have had experience with it: What 
are the issues in using center-tongue blocking rather than the side 
tongue blocking I teach to others? Any thoughts?

 -LM