silpakorn
2 posts
Apr 10, 2010
11:06 PM
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I got this one about a month ago and now I have a feeling that I might have to close the gap of 3 and 4 hole draw because they're too high and quite difficult to bend and vibrato in my opinion. But I also know that with 364 it has something to do with the mouth embrosure too, so anybody have any advice ? Is that the way that it is ( I mean the gap ) ? should I just leave it like that and adjust my embrosure or just close the gap ?
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alleycatjoe
68 posts
Apr 11, 2010
8:32 AM
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the 12 hole 364 in c(sonny boy 2 model)is a little wider then the 14 hole . ive always found the 14 hole models feel better for my embrochure. they also come in the key of D which is a little easier to blow. its difficlt to bend the notes on these harps but i do it without any special adjustments. the first hole draw is easier to bend in the puckering style than toungue blocking but you can bend it with toungue blocking you just have to keep fighting that harp.btw when you play harps with heavy reeds or high harps that are hard to play its sorta like weight lifting and greatly improves your playing of the mid range harps
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barbequebob
689 posts
Apr 11, 2010
12:07 PM
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The thing you need to do is use less breath force,stop trying to force the bends to happen, and not only the embouchure needs to be adjusted, so does the inside shape of your mouth as well, and that is something most players tend to ignore so that there's a larger resonating cavity being created in your mouth.
I'm able to bend both puckered as well as TB'd, but trying to force everything to happen, and it clearly sounds like that and using too much breath force as well, is the wrong way to go. It's not uncommon for newbies to have difficulties on lower pitched harps.
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silpakorn
3 posts
Apr 11, 2010
12:10 PM
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thanks a lot for the information. when i play this one i do lip-pursing most of the time and tongue-block only when i have to. and yes i've found that it's easier with lp style than tongue-blocking. and i also found that jaw vibrato is easier and sound a little better than throat vibrato on this model too. maybe it's something to do with reeds thickness and wider gaps? my main problem here is the 3 hole draw whole step bend which is kinda leaky and difficult to control the pitch and sound quality. but i'll try fighting with this one for few more days without adjustments and see if i can come up with better control on pitch and vibrato.
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silpakorn
4 posts
Apr 11, 2010
12:19 PM
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@bob do you mean that i should try to focus on the shape of the tongue inside of my mouth when i move my jaw down instead of forcing my breath ?
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