Re: [Harp-L] The Harmonica Comb Experiment

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

There is nothing wrong with using the term "natural tone". Natural  
has a relationship to nature and wood comes from nature. Plastic is  
an invention (as it were) is not natural, doesn't occur naturally,  
and is totally made up from 'naturally disassociated' atoms......by MAN.

smo-joe

On Dec 21, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Vern Smith wrote:

> If you introduce your discussion with a false or controversial  
> premise ("If you would like a natural tone") the rest of the  
> statement is irrelevant. Because the writer has made the statement  
> that follows contingent on the introductory premise, that premise  
> is not an unimportant detail.   fjm has every reason to "pick it  
> out"    The writer could have said "If you would like a wooden  
> comb....." and avoided the controversy.
>
> I expect my harp-l posts to be scrutinized.  I often learn  
> something from the discussion that follows.  Yerxa and fjm have  
> straightened out some of my sloppy thinking. This mechanism is the  
> only thing that keeps the internet from becoming a quagmire of  
> baloney.  The knowledge that my statements will be scrutinized  
> leads me to research my statements ahead of time and to properly  
> qualify my opinions.
>
> IMO, it may not be very warm and fuzzy but the forum would be very  
> bland without it.
>
> Vern