Re: Re: [Harp-L] Gapping/Embossing, am I doing it right?...long.

["Greg Hommert" <mythacles@xxxxxxx>]

Richard Hunter writes;

"Frankly, it's  unclear to me from Greg
Hommert's questions what his intentions are --  they could easily be to
set himself up in competition to Messrs.  Sleigh, Gordon, Filisko, etc."


EGS1217 writes;

"Pardon my take on it...but it seems clear that if anyone  here wants such
information from Joe Filisko, Richard Sleigh and  Jimmy Gordon (the Filisko
"Guild", as they are known) they  can write to any and/or each of these 
gentlemen
(they have individual  websites) and ask them just what it is they use and 
how
they set up their  harps.  If they then respond that the information is
proprietary,  then that is your answer....and what right does anyone else 
have to
question that decision?  Could anyone here possibly believe  that any expert
(Vern included) becomes wealthy working on  harmonicas?"


.... I'm not even nineteen yet, ofcourse I DO NOT PLAN ON CONTENDING W/ 
"Messrs.  Sleigh, Gordon, Filisko, etc.".  But how many times have I heard 
Joe Filisko or Buzz Krantz say "all the best players know how to work on 
their own harps."

I believe there is truth to this, as well as a good point.  My questions as 
to the combs.. I (personally) don't know pf a single person aside from these 
guys that seals wooden combs! No matter what kind of harp they're doing it 
to; so ofcourse I used them as examples (/references).  If anything I 
apologize for my lack of knowledge, but I figured that was what harp-l was 
used for.. curing the ailments of harmonica-linked ignorance. It's not a 
matter of stealing anyone's secrets.. there's a difference between stealing 
a secret, and acquiring a small basis of knowledge on a subject.
In truth I have no specific reference to go to other than these e-mails.  I 
only get to see filisko's teachins once a year at spah (which, w/ the 
beginning of college this year I will not be able to attend.. sooo), and the 
teach-in's themselves are usually very crowded and dfficult to acult any 
individual instruction.

In short.. I just wanna make sure I'm doin it right; in order to advance my 
skills as a harmonica "player", not a harmonica "customizer".. pretty hard 
to easily utilize the overblow/draw methods on a normal stock-harp golden 
melody.. in which case you might see my initial dilemma...