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From: Diego.m--g~wisscom.com
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:28:43 +0200
Subject: AW: 2nd hole bend

Hi Ante,

I've had the same problem like you and I'd like to tell you how I mastered
it. The best suggestion I get for bending is from Jerry Portnoy Masterclass.
He suggest:

1. Sing the vocals EEEEEE, UUUUUU, OOOOO at the right pitch (G Gb, F)
without the harp and feel the shape of your mouth and tongue positions while
changing from E to U to O. Changing vocal your tongue will move back and
with E the sound is 'produced' in front of your mouth, with O the sound is
produced deeper in your throat.
2. Try this with the harp but the point is: think of the vocal you want to
play (but don't vocalise while playing) and at the pitch you espect BEFORE
you play.
3. Play and practice regularly. Exercising bendings is something for your
lifetime (like throat vibrato).

>> must I force my reeds with practice, so they would produce the
bend
Try with keeee, kuuuu, koooo instead.

With this my bendings has inproved a lot.

>> sorry for the spelling mistakes, I'm not natural english speaker.

I'm also not a english speaker.

Bye
Diego


> ----------
> Von: Ante [SMTP:an~ms.hr]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. August 1999 11:43
> An: harp~arply.com
> Betreff: 2nd hole bend
>
> Hi
> I have a problem that I tryed to solve by reading harp-l archives and came
> with no solution.
> I can bend 1st and 3rd hole, but I have a problem with 2nd hole.
> On 2nd hole I get my first degree bend (Gb) but cant get second degree
> (F).
>
> I heard advices to try to draw the air so I could feel it with the back of
> my mouth, or to lower my tounge down to my chin, but this way I get to the
> first degree
> bend.
> Now sometimes, when I almost suffocate with my toung, I reach second bend,
> but later I cant reproduce it. My second question is : must I force my
> reeds with
> practice, so they would produce the bend. Like, if I'm trying to bend, I
> would loosen the reeds and afer 6 months get the bend. (this would be one
> of those
> 'warming up' questions).
>
> thanks,
> Ante
>
> p.s.
> sorry for the spelling mistakes, I'm not natural english speaker.
>
>
>