Paul deLay - tongue block player?
Mon, 02/03/2020 - 11:05
Hello,
does anyone know if Paul deLay was a pure tongue block player (like Joe Filisko and Dennis Gruenling are) or did he use both techniques, lip pursing and tongue blocking, in his diatonic harmonica playing? All the best, Manuel
He definitely did tongue block, and talked about it in an interview, relating how he'd been hipped to it by an old-timer he met in a bar. I'm guessing that prior to that he'd been a pucker player. I don't know whether he mixed embouchures after that, though. We hung out together at various times when he was in the Bay Area, but I don't remember ever discussing embouchure with him.