RE: [Harp-L] Which harps last longest when gigging regularly?

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll second that. The loudest harp around, for sure, and durable;
probably because each 'playing' reed has it's own dedicated 'bending'
reed, so each reed has only one job to do instead of two. I don't choose
the XB for everything, but I think they would take off commercially if
people would start thinking about 'music' instead of 'blues',
'bluegrass' , 'jazz' etc. etc.
RD

>>> Steve Shaw <moorcot@xxxxxxx> 6/05/2009 9:25 >>>

> I would have to go with the lee oskars personally.Also because of
their 
> tuning set up they seem to 'cut through' a bit better so no need to
play 
> quite as hard.
> It is a pain playing with a loud band,sometimes i was just playing 
> (hopefully) the right riffs because i knew where the holes were.Not
much 
> room then for any subtlety.
> Although i don't really gig out anymore i have found like Steve the 
> suzuki bluesmasters to be durable as well
> Rick
> in NZ


Thinking slightly sideways, if needing to play a bit louder is your
issue you could consider XB40s, which are considerably louder than other
10-holes.  In fact, they are by some margin the loudest harps of any
type that I possess.  They are not cheap, of course, and, well, maybe,
to know 'em is to love 'em...

 

Steve Shaw

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