[Harp-L] What happened to Dave Payne at Elk River Harmonicas?

[Gary Lehmann]

We are Facebook pals, looks like he is doing OK.
He says he's working for Terminix, I bet he's still playing harmonica.


On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:55 PM Opus314 . <opus314 at xxxxx> wrote:

> I just ran across a 7 year old video by Dave Payne at Elk River Harmonica
> where he used a pizza box with a reed cutout to demo how to work on the
> harp... embossing, reed alignment, etc.
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=dVFQFA4zfJo&feature=emb_logo
>
> What ever happened to Dave? I bought a couple of Seydel Blues Solist harps
> from him many moons ago and we chatted on the phone a few times.
>
> I think he held a harp festival in his area and was a former school
> teacher.
>
> Just wondering if he is still around the harmonica scene?
>
> Thanks.
>