RE: [Harp-L] OB, CX or XB?

["Bret Littlehales" <blittlehales@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote:

>Read what I wrote again,
>you'll see that I said there ARE exceptions..... I never mentioned
>odd instruments.

Yeah you did: "Ever notice that
musicans with odd instruments are usually terrible?" 

>I'd rather have Bernard Purdie on cardboard boxes
>and soup cans than Joe six-pack with his million dollar drumset.

Well, chances are you'll get neither. However, if Bernard showed up w/
the drums and left the boxes at home I'd be happy. Maybe Joe could let
Bernard use his drums on a couple of cuts.

>I'd rather have Rosco on an out of the box weltmeister than than Pitch
>Puptent on an altered marine band customized by Philip Isko.

Who's Rosco? 

>It is the opinion of many that folks who ise altered intstruments are
those that can not do it on regular ones. Why else would they alter
it? This often means they can not cut it as a "real" musician because
they are lazy or need things to be easier... of course there ARE
exceptions. ie: the maestro Richard Hunter

What many? I'd say the opposite is true- that ONLY a certain elite is
playing altered harps. What altered harps are there for "lazy" harp
players? Chris, I'm not talking about those harps in the kids' section
of stores that have pre- recorded tracks when you press a button. I'm
talking about harps that you have to actually play. Seriously- what on
earth are you talking about?

>The argument about the overblows not sounding as good as the other
>notes is what I like to call "abunchofhooey" as I mentioned before
>it's only other harmonica players that mention the issues with
>overblows.

I never said that overblows don't sound as good, I said I could always
hear them, same as bends. As for only other harmonica players
mentioning "that issue", well, this is harp-L, so you're going to get
a lot of harmonica players commenting. 

>What really matters is what the audience thinks and I've
>never had a person come up to me and say "hey that sounded great
>except for those funky sounding notes that you hit every other
>second...."

Too bad, then you'd know someone was really listening.

>I've had this very discussion with other members of our
>super duper elitest overblow club and they concur.

I'm pretty sure you're being sarcastic here, so I won't take your
slide from "Avenger to the downtrodden" to becoming a member of a
super duper-elitest club seriously.

Bret