Re: [Harp-L] B-Radical
- To: Edward J Hart <hooligan6a@xxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Harp-L] B-Radical
- From: Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:34:37 -0800
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> On Mar 12, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Edward J Hart <hooligan6a@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Vern, you don't have to be an engineer to produce a great harp.
Trueâ..but it helps.
> Brad proved that. He produced a great harp.
True againâbut he did not MASS-produce a great harp. I speculate that each one required too many expert man-hours and thus cost too much. His failure to automate may have arisen from lack of engineering skills.
> His business failed.
Also true. I speculate that his big mistake was going to market before perfecting and testing his processes. He bit off more than he could chew.
> It happens a few hundred times a day. Some people lost a couple hundred bucks. I have wasted that on a bad dinner. Haven't you?
I didnât order a B-Rad. However, I was very interested in any effort to start up a harmonica business. I had done so myself and had made a very modest success of the Hands-Free-Chromatic. I found the puffery and overstated claims of his advertising to be irritating.
> Edison failed many times before he produced a working light bulb.
Yesâbut I donât think that he tried to sell them in large quantities until he had a viable process for producing them.
> I hope Brad tries again.
That would be very interesting. We have certainly given him lots of advice about what to do differently next time.
> Stop beating a dead horse.
I think that everybody is interested, partly because they kept it such a mystery. It is partly disappointment. Everyone wanted him to succeed.
Vern
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