[Harp-L] Re: Tolerance on Harmonicas, etc.

[Bill Rossoll <billrossoll@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe I'm just getting wacky in my old age. For me, at least, part of 
the charm of listening to old recordings of SB# I, SB# II, Little 
Walter, and so forth, is that their instruments weren't always perfectly 
in tune or set up to strict standards or even whether they hit a wrong 
note here and there.. Still, they could reach into some magic place deep 
inside and squeeze out what seemed like real emotion. Maybe they did it 
with tone or vibrato or phrasing or who knows what. I don't know. The 
same holds true for some of the old guitarists and pianists that have 
become icons of music. Yeah, perfect instruments are great, but there is 
something special about heartfelt music that goes beyond technique and 
technology.---just my 2 cents