Re: [Harp-L] Hello and Introduction

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

> .  In fact I would suggest a 10-hole diatonic as your first 
> instrument, regardless of genre, in that they are simply easier for a 
> new player to get around on, and to understand.  You can always add a 
> chromatic to your arsenal later, if you wish.

 I (personally) feel diatonics are MUCH harder to learn than 
chromatics. Chromatics have 40/48/56/64 'residents' who ALL live at the 
same address year after year and never move.

 With diatonics, when you try to deliver the mail to the residents, you 
find there are 40 "permanent" residents and anywhere from 10 to 20 
"transient" residents who don't live at any specific address.

 You therefore have to deliver the notes to residents who live "behind 
the cardboard box halfway down the hall" OR "at the bottom of and under 
the stairwell", OR "in the broom closet behind the ice maker" OR "at 
the bottom of the elevator shaft". Finding some of these residents when 
you need to is a bit frustrating.

 Nay, 'I' would START with a chromatic........much much 
easier.......smokey-joe