Re: [Harp-L] Narrow Seydel reeds info, for cultural enlightenment pu rposes

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have no clue how they can sell it at $24.95.
 I have this dream (well, more of a daydream) that in Klingenthal, six guys in suits leave the Seydel factory and drive up in the Erzgebirge Mountains in six cars. They get out and walk deep into the forest, where there is abandoned coal mine that has been sealed with reinforced concrete since like 1952 or something. They chip away at it until they get to this huge steel, bank-vault-type door. No one man knows the entire combination to the lock, so each man in turn turns the dial to his number while the others look away. They go down 300 feet into the mine and there another vault door, they each in turn the dial to work the combination. They shine flashlights around the room and in the middle of something that looks vaugely like the Ark of the Covenant, only instead of covered with gold foil like the ark, it was covered with reedplates... they open the lid of this ark and this blinding light spews out. Once their eyes adjust, they reach
 in and pull out this coverplate die. Somebody says "Behold, the Super-Cool Prewar Seydel Bandmaster, the awesomest harmonica of all time.." only in German... "Erblicken sie, der Super-Cool Seydel Bandmaster, der awesomenester Mundharmonika von aller Geschichte..." 
 They place the die on a saffron-scented velvet pillow, and return it to the factory, where workers are frantically drilling new Solist coverplate holes to accept the bandmaster coverplates. 
In the factory, all is quiet until somebody pips "Somewhere in West Virginia, Dave Payne is jumping in his shoes." 
That was a pretty hilarious post  you had about the Solist, Jcolby. I had to slip my muse a twenty to get something worthy of following it. I could have gone "National Treasure" with this and had the location of the Prewar Bandmaster coverplate die written in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence.... ;)
Dave
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From: "jcolbyspell@xxxxxxxx" <jcolbyspell@xxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:30:54 AM
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Narrow Seydel reeds info, for cultural enlightenment pu rposes

Shh, Dave . . . don't let people know how awesome the Seydel Solist is.  More demand might make it more expensive and it is an awesome harp at any price.  I bought one for $19 US and now they are $25.  If anyone asks, they are horrible, cold sounding, mustache pullers that no one should buy.  Same deal with the Suzuki Harpmaster, terrible harp.  Don't buy any.  I will do the Suzuki a favor and buy all there excess stock so others will not have to put up with them.  I hear real good things about the Kay Chicago Blues and Johnson Blues Kings.  Buy all those.  ;-)

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