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From: Jon Gindick
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 21:14:17 -0700
Subject: Re: Breathing: Harp vs. Singing

Debbie Hamper wrote:
>
> At 10:47 PM 11/30/96 GMT, Wim wrote:
>
> >But do you see a difference in the breathing technique for playing the
> >harmonica and for singing?

Singing lessons have shown me some of the ways
one can play harp with beautiful tone, but not be
cutting it as a singer. One of my biggest problems
as a singer is pronunciation of vowels. They want to
form in the back of my throat near the location
where I hollow my throat out for sweet harp tone. It
helps my singing significiently to remember to sing
from the front of my mouth and to pay attention to
the enunciation. I also had to learn a lot about
directing my voice into my nasal passages at the
gateway from chest to head voice (the pasagio?).
I also needed to learn to avoid tilting my head back
as I sang. Although I'm still working on it,
identifying some of the differences between how I
play harp and correct singing technique has been
important to my improvement as a singer. Jon