Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica for Dummies

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 7, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Richard Hammersley wrote:

> More pages raise the production costs of the book. Below books that  
> will be true mass sellers, publishers have their price brackets and  
> marketing finely worked out, so they want to stick to size.  
> Besides, for every book written too short the other 100 are written  
> too long and could do with a trim.
> Richard
> On 7 Feb 2009, at 01:54, Joe and Cass Leone wrote:
>
> >
Hi Richard, you are correct (as usual), and I agree but here's the  
problem I am having. Maybe it's just me. There are precious little  
documentations on things harmonica as it is and when someone like  
Winslow, who I consider an historian of sorts comes along, I would  
rather he was left untethered. While I don't know him well, I am  
aware of him for these past 17 years and never heard or read anything  
bogus from the guy. He has always been a gentleman and written in a  
clear concise manner and totally without malice. I am sure that he  
would never interject any extraneous bovine excretia into his  
writings. I am sure that he would write only what was necessary and  
the wording would neither be too sparse NOR too lenghty.

Having established that,

Let me put it this way. Let's say the year is 2089, and some  
historians from the Smithsonian are asking around about harmonica  
history and they come across an 89 year old man or woman (who was  
only 9 right NOW), and they asked them questions and the questions  
couldn't be answered because all that the 89 year old could remember  
was:  "I remember a fellow named Winslow who used to write about  
harmonicas but he was never able to tell the WHOLE story."

In other words, here we have a chance of having these friends of the  
harmonica writing and teaching, and right away, someone is putting  
limits on them. Otherwise, I understand fully what you're saying, as  
you (also) have always been a straight shooter.

smo-joe (executive assistant to Keyser Sosa).