Re: [Harp-L] Custom harmonicas: Filisko method...

[Indiana <gdubya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But once you play one, you won't likely want anything else.

I still want Joe to make the rest of a set for me.
He graciously returned my uncashed check a couple of years
ago when I last tried to complete the set.  I will pay and I will
wait if he'd just add me to the list of those he'd make harps for.

There's just simply nothing like them.  Do I deserve the two
that I own, probably not.  Making the most of them is not all
that its about.  There are guys out there playing $20,000 vintage
stratocasters that don't "deserve" it either.... but they enjoy it.

Not to start a flame war here.  I understand your sentiments and
I have several harps of other's who tweak and manufacture..... but
none like the Filisko!!

It's just my opinion.... I could be wrong.....
Back to lurking.....

GW

At 09:18 AM 9/12/04, lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >>Are these higher quality instruments worth the cost and the wait?
> >
> > Absolutely. Nothing more needs to be said
>
> I respectfully disagree with you, Chris.
>
> Not on the fact that Filisko harmonicas are superior instruments, there's no
> question about it? But about the fact that the additional costs and waiting
> time are ALWAYS worth your while.
>
> Think about it for a minute. We're lucky enough to have instruments that
> cost not a lot, even though they have shorter shelf life and possiubly
> require multiple models for one to be prepared. This may lead us to consider
> that 20 times the shelf price is not actually a lot of money.
>
> However, although any professional violin player would love to own a
> Stradivarius, it would be wasted on most of them. Only the best of the best
> would know how to coax the richness of that particular instrument. I think
> it's the same with Filisko's. Maybe Chris Michalek knows how to make the
> most of a Filisko harp, but Joe Schmoe and Ben Felten probably don't. Having
> a reworked and generally tweeked harp will certainly help us, and that's why
> paying 3 to 5 times the price is worthwhile. But the additional gain from a
> Filisko is, in my opinion, only worth it for professional musicians of the
> highest caliber (and former presidents currently undergoing heart surgery).
>
> So, although I may daydream sometimes that I stumble upon Howard Levy's lost
> harmonica case and inherit a set of Filiskoes, it would be wasted on me. I'd
> much rather get 5 of Tim's T-Bones for the price of one Filisko harp !!!
>
> Ben
>
>
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