Re: Customised harps



Yo da man Buzz!
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buzz Krantz" <buzzo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "dfwhoot" <dfwhoot@xxxxxxxxx>; "Stephen Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>;
<harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: Customised harps


> 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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