Re: RE: marking/carrying your harps [long]

[Ray Beltran <rbeltran@xxxxxxxxxx>]

on 7/8/03 1:24 PM, harp-l-digest at harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:56:23 -0600
> From: "Michelle LeFree" <mlefree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: marking/carrying your harps [long]
> 
> Ray, Chip, Bobbie, steven, The Iceman, and Ryan have all recently commented
> on marking harps, a perennial problem.
> 
> Unmarked harps ~were~ the bane of my existance, and I betchya I'm not the
> only one.  They have given rise to a ritual "dance" that only a harp player
> would know (and hate).  I call it the "Blind Harp Shuffle".  It involves
> periodically (at the beginning of each song) picking up half-dozen or so
> harps one-by-one, and squinting at the shiny covers on a dimly or harshly
> lit stage un a hurried manner and selecting the correctedly keyed harp,
> often coming in a few bars behind the rest of the band.  Oh, yeah, you gotta
> pick up the wrong harp or try to play one upside down now and then if you're
> really doing the 'Shuffle.  For me, this senseless ritual was a real trial
> by fire and constent source of embarrassment.
> 
> After an extensive search, I've come upon what I feel is the definitive
> solution for labelling harps.  It's a hand-held label maker made by Brother
> (P-touch, mine is model PT-1700):


I used to use a DYMO Pocket label maker, but then I had to cut the label
just so, position it ever so carefully...then wonder if my friends had
played a trick on my by switching all the labels.

Ray.