[Harp-L] Re: Mustache safety.

[Snaruhn@xxxxxxx]

Hi, bearded harpers,

John Walden wrote:

> I used to have a moustache.... It interfered with my harmonica playing... 
> SO I GOT RID OF THE MOUSTACHE! >

And Steve (Groucho Marx meets Zapata) answered with:

< Too extreme a solution for me.  I've found that as as long as I ensure that 

< no moustache hair is allowed to penetrate the "buffer zone," which is a gap 

< 3.87mm wide extending from the bottom of my top lip to the lowermost 
< extremity of the 'tache, all will be well.  Get this right is my advice, 
for 
< no greater rage can a man feel than he feels at that instant of moustache 
< hair entrapment in the cover plates. >

Toots Thielemans always had an immense moustache but never problems 
with it. The reason is simple: he plays a chromatic having no cover plates 
with open edges where moustache hairs can stick.   
 
So, it seems to me that this problem is familiar only to blues harpers and
the ideal solution isn´t to get rid of the moustache but to use diatonics    
having shells in the shape of the CX 12 or at least having mpcs which close
the cover plates.

CXfried