Jun-22-04 5:35am  [ re: Max ]

You are excercising muscles in your mouth, tongue, jaw and face that have never been used before on a regular basis. If it gets painful, or frustrating...put it down for a day or two and try it later on. Once you become fluent at bending, you will find that you do not need any extra wind power, or major facial contortions to do it. You are going thru what every would be harpman, (myself included) went thru. Just remember, if this instrument was easy, there would be no need for a website like this... good luck!

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jeff