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Post by whitefang on Aug 26, 2020 9:59:55 GMT -5
Anyway....tried teasing JBONE a bit as he(and me and many other people) use the word "harp" when referring to the harmonica. I posted a video of some young ladies playing those huge multi stringed instruments known as HARPS. Like what you find inside a piano but gets hit with little solid felt hammers and not plucked by hand. I used to see young ladies occasionally hired to play a harp at wedding functions while I was a wedding photographer. Once, I sidled up next to one such girl, mentioned that I play guitar and was wondering if she ever experienced(as many guitar players have) a string break on her. She told me she never experienced it, but have heard of that happening to others. As those instruments can have up to 47 "strings"( she told me she usually called them "wires") It seems restringing( or "rewiring", which makes it sound morelike you're working on an electrical device). would be quite an undertaking. And, do you buy a "set" of harp strings? ot buy multiple lengths of wire, as you might when restoring a piano? Inquiring minds want to know! Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Aug 27, 2020 10:15:56 GMT -5
So.... Easier to RESTRING, or PLAY? Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Aug 27, 2020 23:14:47 GMT -5
Probably harder than fixing a flatted 4 draw reed on a Hohner.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 28, 2020 9:45:03 GMT -5
No doubt. But, no matter how bad my harmonica playing might be, it would be FAR better than what I could manage on one of those big ass instruments that little girl in the clip is playing so deftly. Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Aug 28, 2020 12:03:16 GMT -5
Like any instrument I think harp- actual harp- requires a true commitment to learn and succeed. Unlike that thing I can carry a set of harps in a case or on a belt and be very mobile!
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Post by whitefang on Aug 29, 2020 9:41:36 GMT -5
Sho' 'nuff. I'm reminded of an old FAR SIDE comic that shows a bunch of cowboys sitting around a campfire. One of them has a gigantic concert grand piano sticking up out of his back pocket. The caption had one cowboy asking that question heard in many an old western movie: "Hey, Clem..... Why don'tcha pull that thing out and play us a little tune?" Whitefang
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