Re: [Harp-L] practice harps

[Daniel Gage <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I keep a handfull of stock Marine Bands for "weight training."  Many of them overblow (somewhat) out of the box. I like the idea of working hard for tone during practice, then switching (to Sp. 20's) for performances.
   
   I generally practice with older harps and gig with the newer ones.  Don't know what I'll do as I begin to set harps up myself.  I suspect the early set-up harps will be practice ones, as I'm likely to botch quite a few.
   
  Dan G.

drori hammer <drori_hammer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Hi, list!
Here`s a question I have not seen discussed here, but that I`ve been debating for a while: which harps to use for practicing on? For a long time I subscribed to the notion that I should save my best harps for gigs, cause it would be a bummer to blow a reed on my favorite harp while practicing, then not have it for the gig (although now I don`t ruin reeds as much as I did as a begginner - still , every harp "goes south" sooner or later) - I also figured that using a cheap, leaky old harp to practice on would be like a baseball player with a weight on his bat in the on-deck circle: when you get to the gig with a good harp, it`ll seem that much easier.
I started to doubt this wisdom when I started learning to overblow. What good is practicing on a harp which technically prevents you from using the technique you`re trying to learn?
How about all you guys who spend over $100 for a high-end customized harp (or even an out of the box Seydel 1847)? do you use that for practice, or save it for the gig?
I`m curious to hear your opinions


Dov Hammer 
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