Re: [Harp-L] SP 20 Life Span

["becher95 web.de" <becher95@xxxxxx>]

Imho you are right 100%! Nothing is missing besides perhaps the 
adrenaline effect which makes it hard to conrol playing pressures 
sometimes ;-).

Bertram Becher



Am 04.01.2011 01:00, schrieb David Fertig:
> Vive la difference and all that, I am amazed that people break reeds playin the blues, and I've been playing mostly sp20's for decades with almost no reeed failures.
>
> Blowing hard occasionally is one thing, dyamics and all, but as I've remarked before, Lil Walter said he only used a teaspoon of air.   I use whole tablespoons, but anyway I know of no harp technique that requires huge airflow, except leaky harps or out-of-wack reeds, both remediable conditions.    Am I missing something? 
>
> -Dave "lightweight blowhard" Fertig