Re: [Harp-L] Inexpensive Diatonics for Give-A-Ways

[Warren Bee <wbharptime2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bill. Others have contacted me as well. All thoughts appreciated. It
really is a challenging situation; do I want to, in an affordable way,
share the harmonica with people at no charge to them? or am I doing the
harmonica world a disservice by giving away marginal instruments?

My direction may just be to start by giving away the inexpensive double
hole tremolo style harps. They sound fun right away and may be a good
catalyst for them to get the "fever" and seek out better instruments suited
to their musical interests. It seems the diatonic demands some reasonable
playability out of the box.

With that said; one way to look at a first diatonic harp being leaky and
wheezy would be that again they are a catalyst in lighting the fire in
their soul.

Give 'em away or give 'em a lecture on what to buy or keep the harmonica
joy all to myself. Decisions decisions decisions.

WB


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Bill Hines <billhines4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Coast2Coast (great online harp web store based out of Maryland, same guy
> that hosts the HarpTalk yahoo forum) has some of the inexpensive
> multi-color ones that I have used before to give away to kids, audience
> members, etc. They are functional and fun. Bill H
>
>
> On 5/21/2013 4:24 PM, Warren Bee wrote:
>
>> I am looking to buy a bunch of inexpensive harps to give away at an event
>> I
>> used to do the Hohner Blues Bands because I could buy in grosses under
>> $2.00 a piece. The prices are way up now. I can't afford to give away 150
>> -
>> 200 harps @ 3 or 4 bucks a piece. Just wondering if anybody here has a
>> "connection" on anything acceptable and affordable. Thanks.
>>
>> WB
>>
>>
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