Re: [Harp-L] re: Filisko harps

["Ken Wolman" <kwolman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Couldn't resist....

> > No sense buying a race car if you don't know how to drive it. Or if you don't
> > have a place to drive it. 
>
> or if your wife will shoot you if she finds it in the garage...

It was all about free-reed instruments.  Last November I heard a man 
named Raul Jaurena playing tangos on the bandoneon at the 92nd Street Y 
in Manhattan.  I'd never heard anything like it--I mean the sound of the 
instrument itself.  Not your grandfather's accordion.  Got some CDs with 
him on them.  Freaked.  Then found online dealers of bandoneons. 
Freaked again.  So I found out harmonicas are free-reeds and started 
buying harps.  I can't play them worth a damn either but it cost me less 
than $2500 for a USED Alfred Arnold bandoneon.  "Sorry, my dear ex-wife, 
and alimony's gonna be late, I wanted this squeeze-box that I can play 
after you have me locked up in Monmouth County jail."

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman
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