[Harp-L] Cheap/Huang => so harp became a rich man's game (?)

["TedvA" <knuppel@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know it's meant to be funny Tom, but you do know it's rubbish, right?
When did trying to save some money became a bad thing? I try to save money 
on éverything, for the simple reason that I have to.
I read the silliest things, like 'buy expensive', 'but the best you can 
get', 'buy custom', 'dont try to save money', etc... Some of you guys 
probably make loads of money aside from making music, but unfortunately not 
everybody does. And don't start telling me now that harmonica's are cheap, 
because they're not.
Man, I would love to buy me a couple of customized harps from all over the 
place ... but never did and probably never will. For the plain and simple 
reason that I just can't afford a couple of 100 euros to buy me a harp 
that's a little less leaky and so I don't have to work so hard on that 
thing. (Unless somebody can convince me that those harps don't blow out just 
as fast as the cheaper stuff, like Golden Melody or Lee Oskar) Mmm okay, so 
I just work a bit harder to still try to make music I like. And maybe try 
some embossing, tuning and customizing myself on a cheap harp. Ye never 
know...

So MHO: it's okay to save a few bucks by practicing on Huangs and save your 
Hohner & Suzuki's for the gig. Life is expensive enough as it is

Sorry, had to get this of my chest
btw. I do stop the clock every now and than to save some time! ;-)
Cheers
Bart





Aha, so trying
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Ball" <havaball@xxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Cheap Harps


> Just MHO, but methinks the musician who stops buying good instruments in 
> order to save money is somewhat akin to the person who stops a clock in 
> order to save time.
>
> --TBall