Re: [Harp-L] Re: amps for beginners?

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

Perhaps it is just that this is a lot to bite off and chew for a beginner -  
not saying that everyone would be overwhelmed or diluted in the effort. I 
don't  believe anyone suggested the beginner would be ruined.
 
 
In a message dated 1/9/2009 8:59:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I  respectfully disagree with the many Harp-Lers who (as I predicted)  feel
certain that a beginning blues player should not buy an  amp.

Amps do not cover up bad playing; they expose it brutally.   Bad playing
sounds, well, bad when played acoustically, but it sounds truly  wretched
when played through an amp.  Amps encourage better  technique.

Nowhere did I suggest a new blues player should practice  ONLY with a mic and
amp; that would be silly.  But it is equally silly  to suggest a new player
will be somehow ruined by buying a small tube  practice amp and working with
it occasionally.

As some on this  thread have said, amplified playing is a skill unto itself,
quite apart  from the basics of the harmonica.  If a new player is drawn to
the  sound he hears from players such as Kim Wilson or Big Walter, by all
means  he should get a small tube amp and work on the technique.   He
certainly won't sound like Big Walter right away, but neither will  the
beginning acoustic player sound like Howard Levy right away.  It  takes
practice.  And it takes practice to sound good with an amp,  too.  The
beginning player might as well get started sooner rather  than later, if that
is the sound to which he aspires.

-Rick  Davis
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