Re: [Harp-L] Custom harmonicas: filisko method...



> >>Are these higher quality instruments worth the cost and the wait?
>
> Absolutely. Nothing more needs to be said

I respectfully disagree with you, Chris.

Not on the fact that Filisko harmonicas are superior instruments, there's no
question about it? But about the fact that the additional costs and waiting
time are ALWAYS worth your while.

Think about it for a minute. We're lucky enough to have instruments that
cost not a lot, even though they have shorter shelf life and possiubly
require multiple models for one to be prepared. This may lead us to consider
that 20 times the shelf price is not actually a lot of money.

However, although any professional violin player would love to own a
Stradivarius, it would be wasted on most of them. Only the best of the best
would know how to coax the richness of that particular instrument. I think
it's the same with Filisko's. Maybe Chris Michalek knows how to make the
most of a Filisko harp, but Joe Schmoe and Ben Felten probably don't. Having
a reworked and generally tweeked harp will certainly help us, and that's why
paying 3 to 5 times the price is worthwhile. But the additional gain from a
Filisko is, in my opinion, only worth it for professional musicians of the
highest caliber (and former presidents currently undergoing heart surgery).

So, although I may daydream sometimes that I stumble upon Howard Levy's lost
harmonica case and inherit a set of Filiskoes, it would be wasted on me. I'd
much rather get 5 of Tim's T-Bones for the price of one Filisko harp !!!

Ben






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