Re: [Harp-L] Re: special 20 pins

["Larry Ravlin" <sheepdip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this is probably off topic but I can't post to the list for some
reason.  My server keeps saying 'domain not found'  I only posted this by
reply.

Anybody know any reason for this?????

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: special 20 pins


>
> On Jul 31, 2004, at 4:47 AM, ludo beckers wrote:
>
> > I have no idea. I never noted things as meticulously as smo-joe did in
> > his
> > reply (or was he pulling my leg?;-))
>
>   No, I wasn't. I was cursed with a photographic memory. I just hope
> that the skull fracture I received in March is going to help me forget
> some of the crap that's trapped in my head. Seems to be working (so
> far). I remember every date, every birthday, every ones social security
> number, but the other day, I forgot my shoe size, so there's still
> hope.
>
> > I got my first harps in 1971, but don't remember what they were.
> > Probably
> > the cheapo bluesharps.
>
>   I should have explained that I didn't want to get my harps in the
> order that I did. I had to go with what was available at the store at
> the time. Luckily, The owner persisted in keeping at least one of every
> key on hand, but sometimes someone would beat me to the key I
> "preferred" that day. For this reason, I ONCE accepted a Blues Harp (in
> Bb) instead of a special-20. What a mistake. Another time I accepted a
> Hi-G Golden Melody. Not sure if Spl-20s even CAME in that key at the
> time. The GM worked out fine, but now I have a full set of harps from
> Low F# to Hi G. All but the one are spl-20s and I won't play anything
> else.
>
>   I started playing Sep 51 (age 9). I played diatonic about a month.
> 3/20/55 (age 12 1/2) I started playing chromatic. I did THAT till I was
> 16, then quit and went on to other things (clarinet, trumpet, babes,
> pool, cars). Though I played (sporadically AND rarely) from 1958 till
> 1983, I didn't do much in those 25 years. Mr. Roger's Neighborhood in
> 75 and 83, the Ryman in 78, several telethons (Children's Hospt of Pgh,
> Muscular Distrophy/Jerry Lewis), Sit in with Guy Lombardo in 61,
> Manhattan Transfer in 88, local commercials & jingles, Pittsburgh Jazz
> Society. From 83 to 93 I was a little more active and started going to
> SPAH in 90. From 93-03, I was even MORE active, with the last couple
> years VERY active. I am now at a point where I may quit again, but
> that's neither here nor there.
>
>   I learned right at the start that unless you learn to fix your own
> harps, it could cost you a small fortune to play them (especially
> chromatics). I "used" to work on them, but don't do much anymore. My
> eyes aren't what they used to be, and I have no longer have the
> patience. I get violent and throw things across the house. There was a
> time when you could affix a golf-cart battery to my private regions and
> wouldn't be able to get me to play any CHROMATIC other than a Hohner. I
> no longer feel this way and use the Hering product. Sooo, for ME, it's
> Hering chromatics and Hohner spl-20 diatonics, (exclusively) and I
> won't change. Been there, tried that, gambled, lost.
>
>   While I am fairly sure that the spl-20s changed over around 1983, I am
> not sure and that's why I placed a question mark (?) after the date.
> Some of the new old stock (with nails) could have been from EARLIER
> than 83 and the newer harps I was getting could have quite possibly
> been earlier than 83 too.
>
>   smokey-joe & the cafe s
>
>
> > In fact, there's a lot from that era that slips my memory ;-)
> >
> > (used-to-be-smokey) Ludo
>
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