Re: Customised harps

["Buzz Krantz" <buzzo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So true Jerl.  My playing ability increased dramaticly when I started
playing custom harps.Which is better a Harley or a asewing machine? oops! I
mean a Honda.......
                buzz...................
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dfwhoot" <dfwhoot@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Stephen Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Customised harps


>
> Granted , it's not the harp it's the player who makes it sing. Years of
hard
> work and dedication. Just like the old broken down violin, in the hands of
> the master it plays beautiful music. But a fine custom harmonica is like
the
> difference between a  Honda and a Harley, you hear the difference , it
> performs differently,you will take care of it properly, because it will
> change your way of playing.Try one, and I bet you'll see, feel , hear the
> difference.
> Jerl Welch
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>
> To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 6:26 PM
> Subject: Customised harps
>
>
> >
> > >>>Rainbow Jimmy wrote:
> > Since I love Lee Oskars straight out of the box, they do everything I
> need,
> > is there an advantage to custom harps? None of my harp heros use custom
> > harps. Granted there wasn't much for custom harps back when Paul
> Butterfield
> > and Sonny Terry played, but Charlie Musselwhite and James Cotton play
> stock
> > harps and sound great.>>>
> > >>>>>I don't mean to sound snide. Has anyone bought a custom harp and
> > >>>>>prefered the store bought?
> >
> > Rainbow Jimmy>>>>>
> >
> > ....and Chris Brunner wrote:
> > I think the message coming out of the recent thread regarding embossing
> and
> > custom harps is not that it is easy to turn an out of the box harp into
a
> > harp as good as those produced by customisers, it's more that you can
fix
> > your own harps and return an unplayable dog back into a decent
> > instrument.>>>>
> > >>>>Maintainence on your harps is no substite for a customised
harmonica,
> I
> > >>>>certainly can't claim to be able to set a harp up for overblows or
do
> > >>>>embossing or any other of the things that customisers can do for
their
> > >>>>customers, but I can fix most of the regular problems that happen to
> out
> > >>>>of the box harps.>>>
> >
> > I would like to know what kind of people actually decide to buy custom
> > harps.  Just professionals?  The rate I get through harps, especially
> > Special 20s (two months per harp if I'm lucky), would make buying custom
> > harps a very expensive option for me (I don't make money from playing
the
> > harmonica - you hear that, Mr Taxman?  ;-)  ).  And once little things
> start
> > needing adjusting, a bit of fine-retuning here, a bit of gapping there -
> > then it isn't really a custom harp any more is it, unless I send it back
> (at
> > frequent intervals?) to the customiser?  So I'd better have customised
> spare
> > harps too?  I can get my Lee Oskars and Special 20s to such condition
with
> > my own usual bits of low-tech tweaking - including "Paddy-Richtering" my
> > harps - that any faults in my playing are 100% me and 0% the harp.  So
how
> > much would I gain from the extra financial layout?
> > Of course I want to play better - but at what point does the law of
> > diminishing returns set in?
> >
> > Please note the question marks. I am a relatively impecunious amateur
> > harmonica player but I want to keep improving.  Perhaps a customised
harp
> > would be a real revelation to me, but I can't afford to buy one to find
> out!
> >
> > Steve Shaw.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Want more than the blues?  Try Irish!
> > http://mysite.freeserve.com/trad_irish_harmonica
> >
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