RE: [Harp-L] New to the List

"John Balding" <John.Balding@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:05:55 -0500

Cham Bar Huang, the founder of Huang Harmonicas was a long-time Hohner
designer/consultant. He left Hohner and started Huang. Any similarities
in the appearance of Huang/Hohner harps are not by "accident". Huang
(the man, not the company) invented the heralded Hohner 2016 CBH
chromatic back in 1975. "CBH" is obvious: "Cham Ber Huang". 

I have a set of Huang Silvertones which I bought for the low cost. I
originally bought a single Silvertone in A, and was so impressed with
it, that I bought a complete set of "the standard Blues keys". I was
very disappointed with every harp in the set, which included a new A as
well. Rattles, buzzes, squeaks, etc. But the original A which started
the ball rolling is still going strong after 5 years of use as a
practice harp. It is now in my car, exposed to heat, cold and moisture,
and just keeps on playing! The other Silvertones are in my closet as
backups to my backup harps...

John Balding
Tallahassee, FL

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Walter Joyce
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:14 PM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] New to the List

Randy,

The only complaint I have with the Huang knock-offs is that anywhere
above C 
or Dflat they get difficult to bend. I bought the ones that are
supposedly 
for "rock" players, but i think they also make one that might not suffer

from the same problem.

The main reason I bought them was the cheapness factor, and their
similarity 
to the Golden Mel.

<html><DIV><EM><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>Walter T. Joyce </FONT><FONT 
color=#3300ff>Sr.</FONT></STRONG></EM></DIV>
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