Re: [Harp-L] Re: ideal diatonic harmonica

[MundHarp@xxxxxxx]

Siegried is right, as usual! 
No two people will ever want the same thing...

However, MY ideal diatonic is a Hohner MS sized harp with a metal comb. ... 
stainless steel, or titanium for choice ... with "Blues Harp" cover plates, 
because they are nice and thin and vibrate a lot as you play ... and the whole 
thing set up by a good "harp tech."...
YES PLEASE... I want some!!!!

By the way, the comb material IMHO does not make the harp sound better, it is 
just that a metal comb seems to make the instrument nicer to play, and does 
not swell as wood does, and rip the player's lips... Back in the 60's and the 
only diatonic short harps that I could get here in London was the "Echo Super 
Vamper", with pear wood comb, (The same as HM Marine Band) my lips were VERY 
sore after every gig.

A good harp tech will set the instrument up for the player... If you do lots 
off overblows, it will be set up closely gaped, if you play loud "bendy" 
blues, the gaps will be much wider... "Different strokes for different folks"

Best wishes
John Walden
London
England