Re: [Harp-L] Harp sharing

[Greg <digitalronin831@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Keith wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>  I invited a friend to a jam about 6 weeks ago.He showed up with 2 or 
> so harps.I know he doesn't have much money as he has had some tough 
> times.So feeling for him and wanting to see him have a good time, I 
> let him use a few harps.As the band called out the tunes I gave him 
> the correct harps.Well no good  deed goes unpunished as the saying 
> goes.He blew out everyone he played.3 to be exact.The 10 hole blow on 
> a fresh Jimmy Gordon G.(that was just plain stupidity),a 1 hole draw 
> on my A Bushman Delta Frost, and  my 4 draw on my D Delta Frost.Tell 
> me he wasn't excited.I cringed after I gave him the JG G. I said to 
> play it lightly.He had now clue It was a customized harp.The worst 
> part of it all is I had a Herring 123 G in the kit,not realizing it 
> soon enough.It all happened rather quickly just having fun.We all had 
> fun but I paid the price.I let him know about it but we just let it go 
> at that.He is a good friend and if the situation was reversed he would 
> have done the same. Kevin Keith
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Oh that is a painful lesson in sharing.   Perhaps by having some 
inexpensive sacraficial harps the problems of sanitation and losing 
harps to inexperienced players would be averted.  It would also promote 
the love of the harp to new players.


Greg