Re: Anyone Out There?

[hippo@xxxxxxxxxx (Hugh Messenger)]

At  5:25 PM 10/20/94 -0500, <koryta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Did the official response from Lee Oskar & Co. lead us to total silence
>or is there a problem on the network? I haven't received anything from
>you fellow harpers for a day now? It was a pretty articulate response
>wasn't it? But what is the big deal if a few people want to try an Ultimos?
>I've got half a dozen L.O.s already. No one has lost me as a customer.

I don't understand either.  The recent message from Norman via Steve
Jennings (hi Steve, you old lurker you) may give y'all a clue as to what
has been going on behind the scenes.  Legal niceties aside, here is the
part of LO's response that burns me up:

"The presence of Lee Oskar Harmonicas in the U.S. preempts the need for
making available another line of diatonic harmonicas that would cover
basically the same needs already served by major diatonics produced by Lee
Oskar / Tombo"

Anyway, the reason I haven't replied to this is out of respect for Danny
Wilson and his position as both HARP-L'er and LO honcho.  I've made my
feelings clear and so has Lee Oskar, so there isn't much left to discuss,
and apparently I must be imagining the differences between a LO* and an
Ultimo anyhow.

>Well, back to waiting for shipment.......

Norman is waiting for his supplier to complete the order (he didn't have
five C's in stock), although he promised to ship what he has if the missing
few didn't turn up today (Friday).  I've also ordered one of the metal
bodied harps to give it a go.

>
>Jim

   -- hugh

* = grammatical question:  when using an acronym, should one use "a" or
"an" according to the acronym or the 'fully qualified' name?  In other
words, should it be "a LO" or "an LO"?