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Pulls for pucker embouchure: how?

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Sun, 01/23/2011 - 14:42
Paolo
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Dear David, how would you explain to pucker players how to do pulls?
Just open up the embouchure to multiple holes on the upbeat? As you said on another topic, like spitting?
Thank you

Paolo

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Sun, 01/23/2011 - 14:51
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You can perform a pucker-pull very effectively on the lower three holes of the harmonica. For this you simply play a draw chord on the upbeat with the TA articulation. For the 4th hole and above this doesn't work as well... that should be down when tongue blocking the whole time.

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