Re: [Harp-L] very simple questions and responder reed harps

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

It was all of them. 

I don't know why G says "no" when Will Scarlett was clearly the first 
to come up with the idea of a dedicated responder reed for note 
bending. 

Brendan Power did come up with the idea independently and did in fact 
collaborate with Suzuki build a great prototype. I've played the 
prototype and if it were on the market today, I think  most diatonic 
players would like it better than the XB-40 because even though it 
lacks the flexibility of the XB-40, its size, sound, and 
playing "interface" make a much closer match to the familiar 20-reed 
diatonic.

Rick Epping's patents do not lay claim to the responder reed idea - 
they cite it as prior art, as Rick got the idea directly from Will 
Scarlett. If they really wanted to, Suzuki could market the model 
they developed with Brendan without infringing Rick's patents.

Richard Sleigh kept his idea pretty close to the vest although he 
told me he was working on "something" in the early 1990s. Again, it 
was arrived at independently. He may have built prototypes but I've 
never seen them or heard much in the way of details.

Winslow


--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, fjm <mktspot@xxxx> wrote:
G wrote:
> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:40:58 -0700
> From: "Michael Peloquin" <peloquinharp@xxxx>
> Subject: RE: [Harp-L] very simple questions
> To: harp-l@xxxx
> 
> 
>>>From: "Eric Neumann" <eneumann@xxxx>
>>>and of course "that one guy" that gave us the XB-40...,
>>
>>Would that perhaps be Will Scarlett?
>>Michael Peloquin
> 
> 
> No, that would be Brendan Power.
> -- G.
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Golly I'd always heard it was Richard Sleigh.  fjm
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