Re: [Harp-L] Re: Harp players gear lists? blah blah longish

[Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Laughlin wrote:

>"And that brings us to the bigger issue: the implication in this post that 
>pro harp players are shills for gear makers.  The short answer to that 
>implication is that it's all wrong."
>
>Actually, that statement sounds as credible as one nation's president 
>stating, recently, that there "wasn't a smidgen of corruption in his 
>administration's tax wing".
>

Okay, so who are these corrupt shills?  The ones who don't believe what they're saying about the instruments they supposedly use?  The ones who can be bought off with a handful of harmonicas, even harps they don't really like and wouldn't otherwise use?

Pending an answer to that question, I tend to think that the opinions expressed on this list are always the poster's own.  I don't have a good reason to think otherwise.

Regards, Richard Hunter

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