Re: [Harp-L] Combs!

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:51 PM, David Payne wrote:

> I think the general consensus has been a lack of concern for what  
> the listener hears, and more interest in what the player hears.
>
> Dave
> ____________________
> Dave Payne Sr.
> Elk River Harmonicas
> www.elkriverharmonicas.com
Which, (for some reason) is annoying to some people. Some people (and  
I could be wrong) seem to think that the most important thing is what  
the listeners hear. I maintain that it's more important what the  
PLAYER hears (OR THINKS he/she hears), because it is the player whom  
has to be comfortable with what they're playing.

Oh, of course it's important to the listeners who (after all) are the  
audience OR customer OR one signing the check OR booking you OR  
contacting you to play on a commercial/movie/TV/show/etc. Yes,  
'commercially' they are important, and if you look at things from a  
money/career angle, I suppose you could say that they are MOST  
important. But, on the other hand, if a player isn't as happy with  
the way they sound using one instrument and happen to think that  
another instrument is better for some reason, I can see where it  
would be a psychological edge to use what they thought was  
best....for THEM. AND without the player, you wouldn't have any  
playing..so the player is most important. If this sounds like  
Sicillian logic from the movie 'Princess Bride', any similarities are  
pure coincidental.

  I said years and years ago that a 'Voicecorder' is the only  
instrument that should be used for a test. Nothing else will pass one  
person into a secret laboratory to the exclusion of 6,529,840,540  
others. I never did understand why people get all fired up about  
this. It's invenerial to me, but I am always willing to voice my  
(personal) ideas.

"I may not believe in what you play, but I will defend to my death  
your right to play it" .................Nathan Smokey