<<Different brands can sound quite different from
one another, and materials and quality of construction can
also affect the tone. A harmonica with a wooden comb, for
example, may sound warmer than one with a plastic comb....
There it is, in black and white! On the Web! I always knew it was
true.
George >>>
George,
I hate to burst your balloon here but this really doesn't prove a
thing.
Just because some recording engineer says something doesn't make it
true.
I'm a wallpaper hanger and painter by trade and I can tell you that
I've
read
Pages, and pages of advice on the internet from various sites,
claiming to be authorities on wallpaper and paint wherein the
absolutely
wrong
advise is given and absolutely wrong things are stated.
What you need to believe is your own ears. The fact is there are a
lot of
things that effect tone far more than comb material. For starters
there is
the player.
The player has a far greater effect on tone than the harp he or she
is
using. As
Blues players go, I have pretty damn good tone. Give me a Suzuki
Folkmaster
(a very
Crappy harp IMHO) and give a guy with less experience and lousy
tone a
Marine Band and
I promise you in a blind comparison you'll think I'm playing the MB
and the
other guy is playing
the crappy harp. But you put me next to a guy with a really huge
oral
cavity, who has the ability
to produce a deep, thick tone and you'll think I'm the guy with the
cheap
harp. I've only scratched the
surface here. As anybody who can think for a minute of all the
factors,
from construction of that harp, to
the skill level of that player, to even the song being played, can
tell you,
comb material really
doesn't make much difference - to the listener. Now how it feels
to you as
a payer is a different matter.
This controversy is, was, and always will be a silly one.
Sam Blancato, Pittsburgh