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

Matthew Bullis matthewbullisaz@xxxxx
Mon May 11 00:35:11 EDT 2020


Hmm, maybe www.archive.org
has the site in its Wayback machine? I'm not familiar with the web site in question, or I would have looked myself. If it is there, he could save the pages and reconstruct it.
Matthew


On May 10, 2020, at 7:34 PM, George Miklas <harmonicat at xxxxx> wrote:

I just had a telephone conversation with Dave Payne. He is doing alright,
but his website went down and he can't retrieve any of it.
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> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:25 PM Dan Axt <dapperdan at xxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I, too, was seeking contact with Dave about 6 months ago. I even posted
> an inquiry here on the list. Not a peep. Dave, where are you man? I
> found out where Frank Hutchison is buried. Dan Axt
> 
>> On 5/5/2020 7:06 PM, Opus314 . wrote:
>> 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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