Saw a copy of Winslow Yerxa's "Harmonica for Dummies" ($21.99 list) in
Border's bookstore in Rochester Hills, Mich. yesterday.
Today I received my copy from Amazon. (ordered Aug. 31).
By recent count (as I recall) there are 1,800 members on the Harp List.
If everybody on the list bought a copy of this book (and the next harp book
published etc.), this would show the publishers that there is indeed a market
for harmonica books.
Buy it where you want. If your shop bookstores, and your store doesn't have
one, order. This may prompt the store to order an extra copy for the shelves.
And the more books on the shelves, the more likely newbies will pick up on it.
Now if you pick up the book and flip though the pages and conclude: "Jeeze, I
know all of this stuff," and put it back you are defeating the purpose. Buy
it anyway. And the next time somebody approaches you as a harmonica player and
starts asking questions, pull out the book and flip to the appropriate page to
answer their questions. Or loan the book to them. At $20 it's about the
price of a harp today.
Phil
When the Wizard published HIP, the claim was that it was more fun than a pizza. This book (the price of almost 2 pizzas) is still cheap considering inflation. And after you eat pizza, what do you have? .....exACTLY....... :)
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