Re: [Harp-L] Where was Seydel all my life?

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting, isn't it, how subjective are our opinions on various harps. I have a Seydel 1847 in A that is OK, but I don't think it's anything special. I much prefer Special 20s or Bushman harps. 
Nothing wrong with all that... I also happen to prefer Miller High Life in bottles over Guiness, for example. It's all a matter of taste.
Steve Webb in Minnesota, experiencing a rare day with the temp only barely below freezing.

---- bloozeharp <bloozeharp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> I agree. I purchased several 1847s from Jon Harl, and really like them. So 
> much so , that my customs haven't been getting much play time.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Aongus MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Harp-L List" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:57 AM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Where was Seydel all my life?
> 
> 
> >I happened on Seydel harmonicas by accident when my local music store
> > acquired a bundle of them a year or two ago. As a local supermarket chain
> > here says in their advertisements:  "I came for the price and stayed for 
> > the
> > quality!"
> > I thought it would be easy to buy a few more on trips to Germany and
> > Austria, but in all the music shops I visited in Vienna and Hamburg I just
> > got blank stares. One store owner even confided "the quality is not so 
> > good
> > you know!"
> > Apparently under the old state owned regime the instruments were produced 
> > as
> > a mere commodity to be sold by the kilo not the piece and mostly in the
> > Eastern Block.It has taken some time for the word to get around - even in
> > Germany - that Seydel now produces high quality harmonicas.
> > However on a visit to Berlin two weeks ago, I eventually struck oil.
> > Seydel's Dr. Becher kindly referred me to "their man in Berlin" one Igor
> > Flach, a formidable blues style player who sells harmonicas on the side, 
> > via
> > an on line shop www.harpshop.com. I spent an enjoyable few hours with Igor
> > and left his appartment a happy man with a Seydel Standard Chromatic in G
> > and an 1847 Blues harp with the stainless steel reeds. I know that I shall
> > be back for more.
> > BeannachtaÃ
> > Aongus Mac Cana
> >
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