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

[Opus314 .]

How did you find him on Facebook? I looked for Dave Payne and David Payne.

There are a number of similar names on Facebook.



On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 2:29 PM Venky Ramakrishna <jazzyvenky at xxxxx>
wrote:

> I'm facebook friends with him. He posts every week mainly his vegetable
> garden, some historic stuff and some. Still the same guy I'd say.
> Venky
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2020, 10:28 AM MATTHEW CARELLO <mcarello at xxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Looks like Dave got ill in 2010 and moved on.  I recall he was involved
>> with Harrison Harmonica's at that time too.
>>
>> https://harp-l.org/pipermail/harp-l/2010-January/msg01355.html
>>
>>
>> > On May 5, 2020 at 10:08 AM William Lifford <william.lifford at xxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I used to enjoy his posts; he was a really creative guy and very
>> > thoughtful.  Glad to hear he is well.
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:55 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.
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> > 516-338-8585
>>
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