Re: [Harp-L] Combs!

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Somewhere in all this materials debate is a point that seems to have been lost. Who really cares? I am more interested in figuring out how to get a vibrato like Chris Michalek or Christelle. I don't care much about the tuning of my harp or the comb material. I just want to play music that I like and, hopefully, that other people will like.
I like plastic combs. Others like wood. Some people like other stuff. Go with what you like.
Steve Webb in Minnesota, where harp players are scarce and guys who play as good as Mike Fugazzi are even more scarce.

---- Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:51 PM, David Payne wrote:
> 
> > I think the general consensus has been a lack of concern for what  
> > the listener hears, and more interest in what the player hears.
> >
> > Dave
> > ____________________
> > Dave Payne Sr.
> > Elk River Harmonicas
> > www.elkriverharmonicas.com
> >
> Which, (for some reason) is annoying to some people. Some people (and  
> I could be wrong) seem to think that the most important thing is what  
> the listeners hear. I maintain that it's more important what the  
> PLAYER hears (OR THINKS he/she hears), because it is the player whom  
> has to be comfortable with what they're playing.
> 
> Oh, of course it's important to the listeners who (after all) are the  
> audience OR customer OR one signing the check OR booking you OR  
> contacting you to play on a commercial/movie/TV/show/etc. Yes,  
> 'commercially' they are important, and if you look at things from a  
> money/career angle, I suppose you could say that they are MOST  
> important. But, on the other hand, if a player isn't as happy with  
> the way they sound using one instrument and happen to think that  
> another instrument is better for some reason, I can see where it  
> would be a psychological edge to use what they thought was  
> best....for THEM. AND without the player, you wouldn't have any  
> playing..so the player is most important. If this sounds like  
> Sicillian logic from the movie 'Princess Bride', any similarities are  
> pure coincidental.
> 
>    I said years and years ago that a 'Voicecorder' is the only  
> instrument that should be used for a test. Nothing else will pass one  
> person into a secret laboratory to the exclusion of 6,529,840,540  
> others. I never did understand why people get all fired up about  
> this. It's invenerial to me, but I am always willing to voice my  
> (personal) ideas.
> 
> "I may not believe in what you play, but I will defend to my death  
> your right to play it" .................Nathan Smokey
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