[Harp-L] Custom Harmonicas: Rick Epping's Role

["John F. Potts" <hvyj@xxxxxxx>]

Dave writes:

	Lee Oskar plays a huge role in all this, the introduction of the  
idea that you can swap reedplates easy, that you can take X plate and  
Y plate and make a harp with Z note placement. It 		was all a  
marvelous idea.
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	WHile I've never been a fan of the Lee Oskar harps, I embrace the  
fact that LO set the stage for a lot of what is happening today.


 Some of us blame Lee Oskar for Hohner's development of the MS  
system, since the MS models appeared to be Hohner's response to the  
emergence of the Lee Oskar line. I'm sure I'm not the only one old  
enough to remember those days.  But there are so many more options  
available  these days.  Competition is a good thing.

BTW, in all fairness to Hohner and Steve Baker, I need to qualify my  
earlier post by pointing out that i have NOT played any WOOD comb  
Hohner model since BEFORE Lee Oskars hit the U.S. market.

	JP