[Harp-L] Re: Blisters and sore tongue from playing

[Todd Chapman <chappyonice@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 3, 12:27 am, JohnnieHarp <johnnieh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My ultimate salvation was discovering Special 20s with their plastic
> comb and rounded corners. No more tongue blisters. Probably would have
> stuck with them if they had full length cover plates but found that on
> low notes, I was always dealing with the cover plate ends, as a right
> side tongue blocker. Tried various ways to add extenions to the cover
> plates with limited success.

I use a very fine file on the corners of the Special20 cover plates.
Takes just a few strokes of the file on each corner and they smooth
right out.

Todd