[Harp-L] Our Motto

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"But through all this, we never, as a community waiver from the Richter style, Richter 
note placement harmonica ."- Rick Dempster This needs to be chiseled in granite and placed at the entrance to New York harbor. That aside, I must dissent. I got my first Marine Band in the '60's (it cost $2.25), and though I got pretty good at "choking" out the missing tones, in time, I picked up other instruments and relegated the harmonica to an occasional color instrument. The discovery of Eddie Clarke and the Murphy's with their command of the chromatic and the alternate scale arrangements available now on the diatonic really rekindled my interest. Way back when, no one I knew could afford a Hohner chromatic. We had some horrible Japanese chromatics that leaked air like a screen door (the closest we ever came to customizing was wrapping duct tape around a Marine Band to make it mellower). I did have a Koch once-but once again, it has that dadgum Richter scale. it is true that without the Richter scale  the harmonica isn't truly harmonic, but I salute those innovators who have cast aside its chains. Never before have so many owed so much to so few.  Cheers, emily
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