[Harp-L] contact pickup for racked harmonica?

[eldridgegary]

I tried it 10 years ago. You used a small piece of putty to put it on the cover plate. It picked up more of a vibration sound than an acoustic sound. It was real buzzy. I didnt like it.


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-------- Original message --------From: Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman at xxxxx> Date: 11/22/16  10:43 AM  (GMT-06:00) To: Hannes Schneider <hannes.schneider.23 at xxxxx> Cc: harp-l <harp-l at xxxxx> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] contact pickup for racked harmonica? 
There is no resonating body on a harmonica--where would you put it?

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Hannes Schneider <
hannes.schneider.23 at xxxxx> wrote:

> There are small inexpensive contact mics on the market used for acoustic
> guitar, violin etc. Has anybody ever tried using one of those for racked
> harp?
>
> regards
> Hannes
>