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From: "Stephen J."
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:42:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Bends with Resonance

On Dec 2, 2:40pm, Mike Curtis wrote:
> Subject: Re: Bends with Resonance
>
> One other thing about "resonant bending" - if you remove the harmonica,
> keeping your mouth exactly the same, and whistle, it makes the same pitch
> you were playing on the harp. With nonresonant bending, it makes a much
> higher pitch, seemingly unrelated. Of course, removing the harp could
> alter things a bit, which would have a vastly greater effect with the
> smaller mouth size.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Mike Curtis

What if you can't whistle? I would hope I (or any other person who can't
whistle) would still be able to learn resonant bending.

Stephen


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Stephen Jackson
Systems Programmer
N.C. State Computing Center Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
steph~nity.ncsu.edu Who knows? Who cares?