Re: [Harp-L] Hohner Price Increase

[Seth Galitzer <sethgali@xxxxxxxxx>]

Every time this comes up (maybe every six months or so lately), I have a 
hard time getting worked up about it.  Yeah, maybe if I had been playing 
for 50 years and saw the price multiply by 10 (or more), I *might* feel 
different.  But if you ask me, much like guano, inflation happens. 
Nothing has stayed the same price over a long period of time.  It's the 
nature of economics.  And frankly, compared to the price of a new 
professional tenor saxophone (my main instrument), a couple more bucks 
for a harp is peanuts.  Even if you only buy custom harps, you could 
have a whole set of 12 for the starting price of a pro tenor sax.  Yeah, 
yeah, plus amps, plus mics, plus <other gear>. $$$. <cha-ching>.  I get 
it.  But guess what, being a professional (or even semi-professional) 
musician costs money.  So does living in a post-industrial world.

I don't mean to sound rude or disrespectful of my elders here, because I 
truly do respect those I learn from.  I just hear about "price 
increases" and the griping that follows, and I just think it's all a bit 
silly.

Ok, there, I said it.  You get to rant, I get to rant, we all get to 
rant.  Gotta love them Internets.  I'll go back to lurking now.

--
Seth Galitzer

The beatings will continue until morale has improved.