RE: [Harp-L] - set up

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

> Rainbow Jimmy wrote:
>
> "With all due respect I've been playing for 30 years and never got under
> the covers. I play Lee Oskars right out of the box."
>
> Eric writes:

> I have to admit, I have never played a Lee Oskar, so I may have a lot to
> learn about being able to do those things I can't do with abn out of the
> box harp - where I currently believe that I do benefit from the "under
> the covers" adjusting I tend to do. Maybe Lee Oskars have built in
> factory mojo? heh.

I don't think we're disagreeing here!  Jimmy plays Lee Oskars;  Eric never 
has;  I use all sorts including Lee Oskars (though I've never played Hering 
diatonics), and LOs are far and away the "most playable" (to me) out of the 
box.  And they stay that way for longer than the others too.  LO are justly 
proud of their quality control.  But I just can't contemplate life without 
the odd gapping adjustment or fine-tune (or indeed retune, as with Paddy 
Richter).  And what about chromatics?  If you can just get in there every 
now and again, to attend to the valves if nothing else, you save yourself a 
wad of dosh!

Steve

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