Thanks for your help y'all!

By the way, when you say "the roof of your mouth," is there a specific
place on the roof or does that not matter. I,e. in the back, near the
teeth, etc?

I'm starting to get a sygyt sound but I'm am doing it rather quietly
since I'm live with my family, (to put things in perspective, I'm 16
years old) and don't really want them to think they hear mosquitoes
swarming in the house!

Again, thanks for your help!

Kyle



--- In khoomei@yahoogroups.com, grover <imnotelmo@...> wrote:
>
>
> > 3. Sygyt
> > Posted by: "Kyle Abbott" fiddlefella@...
> > mandofella
> > Date: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:22 pm (PDT)
> >
> > ... can't seem to get a Sygyt whistle...
>
> Sygyt is tricky because everything has to be just
> right.
>
> to start your khoomei needs to be strong and clear.
>
> add a little more breath pressure and a little more
> constriction to your khoomei and then (while holding
> the base of the tongue in the khoomei harmonic
> position) put the tip of your tongue up to the roof
> of your mouth.
>
> you will need to leave a tiny opening somewhere.
> some folks do it along the side by the molars,
> some do it at the roof of the mouth.
>
> the really tricky part is that what the tip of the
> tongue is doing needs to be perfectly in sync with
> what the base of the tongue is doing. when these are
> locked in you get increased filtering which causes
> the harmonic to really pop out. if they are not in
> sync then everything just gets canceled/muffled out.
>
> it is extremely important to have a rock solid
> khoomei.
> all the subtle movements required to get sygyt to
> lock in will be nearly impossible to find if there
> are variations happening with the khoomei voice.
>
> grover
>
>
>
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