[Harp-L] re: names

[Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Moyer wrote:

"I wish now that you'd submitted an
entry, Jonathan, so I could see what you would consider a good name."

Custom Marine Band, $50

I really don't see the need for anything else name-wise.   
Fortunately, I'm in pretty good company on that:

http://www.customharmonicas.com/james_gordon_product_pricing.html

If it was an all-new harmonica, and you were a company like Suzuki or  
Leo Shi introducing a new line, say, I'd just go with an alpha- 
numeric system.  Say, PT-50.  P for plastic comb, T for traditional  
MB-type covers and well, 50 for the price.  Or an internally logical  
number like 911 was for Porsche, or 270 and 280 were for Hohner.  I  
don't even mind an adjective with the number (Special 20, Super 64),  
but it's not what I would do.

Notably, neither organ companies nor piano companies have ever needed  
to have names for their products beyond the descriptive (for the most  
part).  Thus you have a Steinway model D concert grand, or simply an  
Opus number for an organ.  I can think of exceptions in both cases,  
but they are just that (and, again notably, these are aimed at the  
lower end and not done by the premier companies).

Of course, electric guitars are an exception--but then, besides the  
classic names which have simply been around so long they are no  
longer onviously bad, most of the newer names are horrible.  And the  
best acoustic guitar companies always went with a systemic approach,  
occasionally with a descriptive (Jumbo, for instance, which is just  
that--though I wonder if they had a suit from Barnum's corporate  
heirs over that...).

To each their own, of course, but even given that, I don't see  
"journeyman" as a good name.  I'm not sure what would be, but that's  
why I wouldn't go with a name  in the first place.


 ()()    JR "Bulldogge" Ross
()  ()   & Snuffy, too:)
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