[Harp-L] Dave Payne Joins Hetrick

[Matthew Smart <matthewsmart@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since it has been ruminating for months, I'm pleased to announce the 
official collaboration of Hetrick (me/Scott Hetrick) and Dave Payne. He 
has come aboard on a part-time basis as a consultant and customizer.

As I'm sure most of you are already familiar with Dave, I will keep it 
brief in saying that he was trained by Brad Harrison, he worked at 
Harrison Harmonicas. He is a master customizer of both diatonic, 
chromatic, bass harp, tremolo...pretty much anything. He is awesome. 
Dave and I have been working together and talking regularly for months 
and it became pretty clear to me that I needed to convince him to only 
semi-retire. He is just too valuable to the harmonica community. I'm 
tickled pink and flattered that he is helping us. He has already brought 
a lot of value and I am also hopeful that our technology/machinery will 
help him realize some of his pet projects in the future.

As a part of his semi-retirement, Dave has agreed to let us help with 
his ordering/customer service inquiries and sell his custom builds on 
our website. I think this will help extend Dave's reach to customers 
beyond the forum community to the world wide web!

Dave's first suggestion was that we carry an optimized/specialty line of 
harmonicas that are available very quickly (in stock, if not quick 
turnaround). While I have been working on a batch of Hohners, Dave has 
already beat me with a great line of the following in Seydel now in stock:

1) New and improved Bluesified Concerto with overblows

2) Optimized Seydel Deluxe chromatic

3) A new line of optimized seydel session steel harmonicas that are 
configurable with different coverplates, hardware, combs etc.

You can read more about them and view options here 
http://www.hetrickharmonica.com

I personally appropriated some of these builds for my personal harp case 
and I must say they are such a joy to play and open new 
possibilities...while very affordable!

I just can't wait to announce some of the other things we are working 
on. This is just scratching the surface.

Kind regards

p.s. Now please help me in convincing Dave to travel down the Elk River 
to join us on the Chattahoochee in Georgia so we can get him in our shop 
full-time!

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