Re: Subject: [Harp-L] someone spilled beer in my harmonicas!!!!! hi-gene and the harp

["David Priestley ( for harp-L)" <dmharpman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
Back in the day when all one could get was Hohner, they were mostly 
leaky and unreliable, some would say that not much has changed but lots 
has changed and there really isn't the need to soak a harp now that 
there was back then.

Some simple rules should keep you safe.
First and formost is don't share your instrument with any one else. 
Would you put some one else's false teeth into your mouth? Sharing harps 
is much the same.
Try not to play when you have food in your mouth, as what's been in your 
mouth will end up in your harp. Even with good oral higene you can have 
all sorts of nasty stuff growing in your harp. You don't want to make it 
worse by  giving the germs food.

If you are going to put your harp into booze then a  blond spirit is 
better than something like Baileys, better yet don't soak it in any 
thing at all.
Just my thoughts-David
On 30/09/2011 21:26, EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Right. I use rust and corrosion interchangeably when I  shouldn't. In my
> haste to respond to Randy I didn't differentiate between  the rust I've seen
> and removed from the undersides of  covers and betweem mouthpiece layers with
> the ugly  green corrosion on reed plates (often piled with huge  amounts of
> gunk and debris) without differentiating between them. I abbreviated.  Mea
> molto culpa.<G>
>
> I'd personally never play a remotely dirty/grungy harmonica,  especially
> when it's a relatively simple process to keep them clean. The  key word (to
> me) in Randy's post was his description of his GMs as 'pristine' so  I posted
> a video from another well-known player of his acquaintance who  also
> believes in spotless harps demonstrating just how to get them  back to that
> pristine state. Randy thanked me offlist.

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