Re: Soaking test results

[timm@xxxxxxxxxx (Tim Moody)]

Mike,
I really enjoyed your discussion on dB's but would have to agree with your 
method being less than Scientific by using an uncontrolled input device for 
your test. I'm sure there probably still would have been a small difference 
in volume but my original post was meant to show those less experienced on 
the list, that soaking in general, especially wood combed harps, is a 
disaster waiting to happen. I'm hope everyone agrees, as we would hate to 
lead some poor soul astray. I can just see some less experienced individual 
reading your posts, and then running home to try his "new found trick". He 
dunks his Marine Bands in the bathtub(or cup of ice water) and then expects 
someting to happen. After a while something will happen, gonzo harp city. 
Now we've lead some poor fool astray. I think it much better for everyone if 
the more experienced players on the list advocate NOT soaking harps with a 
minor exception to the EXPERIENCED players. If was vey hard for the 
novice(and me) to tell what you really meant with your soaking post. 
Especially after you come back with proof of your theory. I would suggest 
that you make some sort of clarification between, novice and experienced, or 
between wood vs. plastic, because as I stated before, the OVERALL 
concensus(sp) is soaking is bad, and that has been since "the dawn of time"


Tim Moody
MississippiSaxophone