Re: [Harp-L] B-Radical



> On Mar 12, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Edward J Hart <hooligan6a@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Vern, you don't have to be an engineer to produce a great harp. 
Trueâ..but it helps.  

> Brad proved that. He produced a great harp.
True againâbut he did not MASS-produce a great harp.  I speculate that each one required  too many expert man-hours and thus cost too much.  His failure to automate may have arisen from lack of  engineering skills. 

> His business failed.
Also true.  I speculate that his big mistake was going to market before perfecting and testing his processes. He bit off more than he could chew.

> It happens a few hundred times a day. Some people lost a couple hundred bucks. I have wasted that on a bad dinner. Haven't you?
I didnât order a B-Rad.  However, I was very interested in any effort to start up a harmonica business.  I had done so myself and had made a very modest success of the Hands-Free-Chromatic.  I found the puffery and overstated claims of his advertising to be irritating.

> Edison failed many times before he produced a working light bulb.
Yesâbut I donât think that he tried to sell them in large quantities until he had a viable process for producing them.

>  I hope Brad tries again.
That would be very interesting.  We have certainly given him lots of advice about what to do differently next time.

> Stop beating a dead horse.
I think that everybody is interested, partly because they kept it such a mystery.  It is partly disappointment.  Everyone wanted him to succeed. 

Vern






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