RE: [Harp-L] How many to do you bring...

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We (OK, juse me) have a saying around my house. You can never have too 
many harmonicas.
When I was playing every weekend, I used 14 harps regularly, but brought 
way more with me. Our singer/guitarist liked to capo the first fret 
sometimes and then play C fingering. That meant I needed an F sharp 
harp.  And he did some other songs in flat keys, so I ended up with all 
12 keys plus a couple of low harps. He liked to do songs in their 
original keys.
  And of course I needed spares in all the heavily used harps.
 But, I had accumulated harps over the years, and I'm not hard on them, 
so it was no big deal. Now that our trio is defunct, I have way too many 
harps, but..... you never know.
  Just got invited to play the anthem at our high school for a 
basketball game later this year, so I can practice that. And I have been 
working on "You Don't Know Me" with a country tuned harp after hearing 
Berl Welch do such a great version at SPAH.
Steve Webb in Minnesota


On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:27 PM, joe hagins wrote:

> How many harps do you guys bring to one show that you actually will 
> use during the gig? I am currently gigging with only 5 right now, but 
> I am doing mostly blues/country/irish gigs. I am trying to save up 
> some $ to upgrade my amp setup..
> Â
> ~Joseph