On sound differences (No. 2)

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Huuuh,

now I=B4ve surpassed myself on the wrong side and opened the mailbox before=20
etc....

Well, as a non-native and one with a faible for perfectionism I don=B4t simp=
ly=20
right down ideas just coming into mind but look for the Sh.... I have just=20
typed.=20

What I hate most are typos or wrong logic conclusions..Oooops, there we have=
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a good example what I just said. A "wrong logic conclusion" is a=20
"contradictio=20
in adjectio" as the shysters use to say. Yeah, a conclusion is either logic=20
or not.

Back to the last sentence in subject no. 1:

Or let=B4s take harpers playing in a competion and you ask the jury who will=
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be the winner. Very simple they would answer, the best one. They don=B4t say=
=20
that
the player who gets the most points of a complicated assessment system is=20
that=20
one. =20

Good, better, best are often a kind of empty code words or depend on=20
subjective=20
judgments.In other words, it=B4s often a matter of taste.=20

Interesting is here that  there are two apparently opposite sayings (at leas=
t=20
in German):=20
taste is disputable - there=B4s no accounting for tastes (ueber Geschmack=20
laesst=20
sich streiten - =FCber Geschmack laesst sich nicht streiten). However, these
sayings aren=B4t so opposite as they seem on the first view. Wether you say=20
that=20
taste can be discussed because it=B4s not objective or can=B4t be discussed=20
because=20
a subjective impression, anyway, there=B4s no final, mandatory, general=20
solution.

This goes also for the harmonica sound harp players are constantly busy to=20
change.
The blues players use their hands to achieve all kinds of special effects or=
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harpers
in general look into mother=B4s kitchen whether they can find any pot or oth=
er=20
sound=20
changing object. Howard Levy sometimes uses a glas half-filled with water=20
which=20
gives a nice effect.=20

But there=B4s one point the sound engineers mostly don=B4t care or think of.=
 Is=20
the=20
sound intended for their own ears or for the audience. A harper listening to=
=20
his
own recording is sometimes astonished about the sound difference.

Hey, Harpie, you wanted to say something?

Yeah, Dad, I think that in this case, the believers in the materials debate=20
are=20
completely right. The harp sound depends on the material the skull bones are=
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made of. It is said that some people have wooden heads and others have=20
nothing inside but straw or even simply nothing. And then, I observed that=20
harpers=20
sometimes wear headgears on stage. Is that because they want to mute the=20
inner vibrations or do they expect that it could rain on stage?

Well, Harpie, I think it=B4s time now.

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