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

["Robert Laughlin" <harmonicaman1968@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"The ones who can be bought off with a handful of harmonicas, even harps 
they don't really like and wouldn't otherwise use?"

As I mentioned in a previous post, most probably too long and full of 
unnecessary detail (for which reason you might have missed it),

Similar harps, of similar quality, but made by differing 
manufacturers,,Suzuki, Hohner, etc.,, are available at varying but similar 
price ranges. It wouldn't be beyond the imagination to find that for certain 
players, skilled on almost any reasonably built harp, the brand or model 
wouldn't seemingly be as much a factor, as much as perhaps a backroom deal 
for sponsorship would, involving free harps or other hidden rewards, such as 
publicity. This does not mean that they would end up playing harps the they 
"don't really like, and wouldn't otherwise use."



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hunter" <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Robert Laughlin" <harmonicaman1968@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Harp players gear lists? blah blah longish


> 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
>
> author, "Jazz Harp" (Oak Publications, NYC)
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