RE: [Harp-L] was american chestnut, now steel

[Jonathan Compton <jofjltn4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Again?  Oh, c'mon.  This is one of the regularly scheduled topics on harp-l.  Fighting it will only make it stronger.  Just let go, and roll right along with it.

I still believe that comb material affects the sound, but not in a way that can be reliably or consistently discerned.  In other words, other factors...factors beyond the control of all players...also impact the sound as well as the environment itself.

Forget all the scientific stuff...I *want* the comb material to have an effect.  I want to believe that a harp with a comb made from 200 year old rare wood differs from a harp with a comb made of a space-age polymer.  Stop telling me otherwise.  =P

Jonathan "I can't hear you nahnahnahnah" Compton

> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:42:27 -0700
> From: dmatthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Harp-L] was american chestnut, now steel
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> 
> Please, let's don't start that again.
> 
> 
> 
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> From: "harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:46:28 PM
> Subject: Harp-L Digest, Vol 70, Issue 34
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> I have a still-open, long-standing $1000 wager that no one 
> can hear differences in sound arising from differences in 
> comb material in otherwise identical harmonicas under 
> controlled conditions.  Wanna bet?  ;o)
> 
> Vern
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