Re: [Harp-L] Harrison Harps

[Ryan Bannister <ryanmbannister00@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very well put, Mike.
On Aug 6, 2011 10:17 AM, "Michael Easton" <diachrome@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Like most people with the inspiration and perspiration to create Brad
> needed the same people to run his company.
> There were too many vendors and departments for him to oversee
> entirely by himself. Maybe he micromanaged too much.
> I saw an ad online last fall when I was laid off from work. HH was
> looking for harmonica techs. Had I lived closer I might have taken
> the position.
>
> There is a shared loss here. He gave up a lifestyle, a marriage to
> pursue a dream of making the perfect harmonica.
> He waited more then 10 years to make the dream happen. Some of you
> waited more then 2 years to share in it.
>
> The dream may live on but perhaps without Brad. Who knows. The mfg.
> that bought out HH may have kept Brad on as
> consultant and quality control man. Some companies do keep the CEO on
> board when they buy out a speciality business.
> Brad is the only guy in the US that has full knowledge of actually
> making a harmonica from start to finish. I don't mean book knowledge,
> I mean hands on. The buyer would be foolish not to offer a position to
> Brad as part of the sales agreement.
>
> Besides his reed making tool is one of a kind. The heart of the HH,
> the reed, will live on.
>
> Let's give the new company time to set up shop and see what will
> transpire.
>
> I understand the anger, frustration and mistrust most of his customers
> may feel toward him but very few if any of us could have carried the
> dream that far on our own.
> Perhaps he will learn from the mistake. It took many mistakes to
> design a radical reed. The best visionaries in business made many
> mistakes along the way.
>
>
> Michael Easton
> www.harmonicarepair.com
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