Re: [Harp-L] Is James Gordon Charlie McCoy's customizer? (was SS reeds)

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 19, 2008, at 5:28 PM, captron100@xxxxxxx wrote:

>  Dave wrote:
> He told me he played only stock and was totally happy with that. I  
> had a talk about this with Charlie back in September I asked him  
> who set up his harps, he said played them stock from the manufacturer.
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> Wow, he mustn't know what he
> is missing.?

Yes Ron, he actually does. But he has a sort of old fashioned self  
sufficient personna. He feels that it is less to have on his mind or  
to worry about if he can run into a small country general store in  
Podunkville U.S.A. and get a stock replacement out of a dusty cigar  
box up on the high shelf. Sort of like walking in an buying a box of  
22s. He doesn't want the 'exotic' (MY words) factor.

> Overdrawability (how do u like that word, Dave? ha) is not the only  
> reason one would want a custom harp.? I have a Spiers F harp that  
> enables me to actually play
> Charlie's versions of Orange Blossom Special and Rocky Top, with  
> relative ease.?? Imagine how clean and fast Charlie would be if he  
> had harps like mine.? I bet if Charlie ever tried Joe Spiers'  
> harps, he would become a convert.

He does like them but feels that the replacement factor is too risky.  
AND, once you can drive a stock car like a race car, imagine what you  
could do with a REAL racer. He had mentioned a couple currently  
available stock harps and how the quality has gone way down, so who  
knows?  :)
smo-joe
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