Re: [Harp-L] Re: The Future of Blues Harmonica?

[Michael Rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,
If you are talking to me, what I am trying to say is Suzuki should have
made a good harmonica and charged me more for it, instead of charging me a
lot of money for a bad one.  I am looking for value.  $185 for a bad
harmonica is way too much money, no matter how brilliant the IDEA behind
the harp is.  $300 for a great harmonica with a brilliant idea behind it is
well worth it, imo.
Michael

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:14 AM, martin oldsberg
<martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Interesting. I almost get the impression here that you think this
> harmonica really should cost a bit more? This despite some people finding
> it hard to play OOTB. Now don´t say that the harmonica industry hasn´t
> disiplined us customers!
>   "My new Steinway has arrived, but sadly, it´s really hard to play. For
> one, it lacks strings; and the hammers require some serious hand tweaking
> by an expert craftsman. But he comes at just $400 /hour so why complain?"
>
> (I have not tried the SUB. It may be a great thing, but I find it
> challenging just to remove the coverplates from a harmonica, so I´ll wait
> until I see some reviews saying that the factory has done what
> they´re supposed to do.)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> >I know what you mean! I think there a lot of harps our there that cost
> >much less but are still overpriced.  This one, honestly I think with
> >some hand factory tweaking, should be around 250-300. If you were to
> >purchase a full overblow/overbend setup from a customizer it would cost
> >about the same without as many cool bends available.
>
> >Did you see Richard Sleigh's video? He got a lot of improvement in
> >performance by just taping down 4 of the extra reeds, without
> >sacrificing much.
>
>