Re: [Harp-L] XB40

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

I think the main reason that it seems no one is interested and no one  
is doing anything is because most of the people on this list are  
already fairly experienced (compared to the average) with the  
standard Richter (and variants), and have so much time invested, so  
much familiarity, and have gone through all the traps to get to a  
certain point of expertise, that there are some pretty heavy hitters  
out there, and they just haven't put in the time YET.

The exclusion would be Dave Fairweather, from whom I heard some  
pretty impressive stuff at SPAH Denver. Too bad he wasn't a feature.  
From what I have seen over the years, there are enough players who  
show expertise on standard tunings that I always questioned as to why  
the XB-40 was even needed. I put it in the same category as Lee Oskar  
harps. This is to say they are almost TOO good. And once you got used  
to playing mediocre harps and coaxing what you could from them, the  
XB-40 is too 'luxurious', does too much, and therefore you have to  
learn NOT to use all its capabilities.

After playing regular harps for years, I found that playing a custom  
almost made my whole world fall apart. What I had taken as good stock  
nice playable standard harps suddenly turned out to be a lot less  
than desired.


smokey-joe

On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Zombor Kovacs wrote:

> I am no good playing the harp (or maybe not yet), but
> you guys out there why don't you do something???
> This is a harmonica, which offers much more freedom,
> and so few people are interested?
> Why?
>
> Zombor
> www.zovax.atw.hu
>
> --- Tim Moyer <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Zombor Kovacs wrote:
> > > I was looking for some XB40 clip. If there
> > > is none with Mr. Epping, with somebody else.
> >
> > How about Winslow's clip:
> > http://www.planetharmonica.com/ph5/VE/Windermere.htm
> >
> > -tim
> >
> >
> >
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