[Harp-L] Harp Soaking

[captron100@xxxxxxx]

Brian Stear wrote: 
back in the 60's, ....snip....the harmonica player/singer/frontman kept pulling his harps out of 
a glass which later on I would come to recognize as containing whiskey. During 
break, I asked the well dressed man why he kept his harmonicas in the glass. 
Said " makes them play better ".
   The harmonica player was Charlie Musselwhite.



Despite the fact that Butterfield was said to eschew this practice, I once saw him doing the same thing, keeping his harps in a 
glass of liquid (looked like water).  
Ron - FL Keys