RE: Hole 1 Overblow

["Eric Neumann" <eneumann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry - thanks for the kind words - and I would like to add that it
hurts when wise cracks come back to bite me. heh.

You could shave your head bald and wouldn't lose tone - so the pony-tail
theory obviously has no merit.

Anyway.. I was using a harp at jam camp that I "did some things" to...
cuz I can't wait for somebody else to do it for me. I am still working
out kinks, but I am sure to improve as I learn more. (by both success
and failures, of course) Good feedback on tone is nice, and I would
really like to think it has to do with my efforts mechanically... but...
it was probably due to the coaching staff's input, right? =)

Tinkering with your bag of old harps in my opinion, is by no means a
waste of time. In other words, and forgive me for this... 

I think to tinker is by no means a stinker. 

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Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:20 PM
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Subject: RE: Hole 1 Overblow



Eric Neumann wrote:

Sometimes the risk of waiting two years to get a custom diatonic
outweighs the need..........

This is why I lean more toward the risk of modifying harps on my own. I
can spend the same two years improving my own skills at reed shaping,
tuning, et al.

Does anyone else share that opinion? Or am I just really being a
cheap-o?

>>>>>>>>>8<<<<<<<<<

Hey Eric...........You played some very nice stuff at the Jam Camp.  All
the
Austin boys showed well.  I especially liked the way you noticed that
tone
seemed to corrolate with the length of the ponytail.  Dennis G. had the
longest
ponytail and by far the fattest tone.  I just trimmed my ponytail up and
lost
half my tone!  LOL  

You can get a great customized harp right there in Texas in a lot less
than two
years from Tim Moyer.  Go to Workingman's Harp.  

I also agree that learning to set-up your harps is a skill worth
developing.  I
always have shied away from doing it myself, but watching Allen at the
Jam Camp
showed me how easy it is to get started.  I've got a whole bag of harps
with
one flat reed.  Good supply to practice on.


Keep playing. Keep practicing and I hope to see you somewhere.

Best Regards to All,

Larry Boy Pratt
www.parkhousejam.com


 




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