gad wagon
39 posts
Dec 14, 2012
5:22 AM
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Don't you love that first big draw on the harp after you have carried it on your pocket for a while. It is always a doosey; like inhaling a handful of dust! Every now and then, a big piece of lent stop a reed, but it is usually the fine, dusty stuff.
Anyone else ever get the mouth full of pocket fuzz and lent?
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SuperBee
718 posts
Dec 14, 2012
5:37 AM
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ah yeah i know what you mean...i try to avoid it these days by using a cover for the harp. i reckon thers a chance its bad for your health to inhale that stuff
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Honkin On Bobo
1080 posts
Dec 14, 2012
7:00 AM
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Hohner SP 20's and Marine Bands come in a nice little plastic case (in my neck of the woods anyway). I never carry 'em around with me or store 'em not in the case.
Voila!
No dust/lint problems.
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HawkeyeKane
1293 posts
Dec 14, 2012
9:56 AM
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I use the little leather sleeves that come with Seydel Sessions. Keeps 'em clean. Also have the Hohner single-harp belt pouch.
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KingoBad
1217 posts
Dec 14, 2012
10:26 AM
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I only get it during the 40 days before Easter...
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Danny
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HawkeyeKane
1294 posts
Dec 14, 2012
10:52 AM
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"I only get it during the 40 days before Easter..."
Kingo, you need to get an HTML button to embed that sounds off the rimshot-cymbal after your one-liners. LOL
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KingoBad
1220 posts
Dec 14, 2012
10:47 AM
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Heh heh....
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Danny
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gad wagon
40 posts
Dec 14, 2012
1:18 PM
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@ Kingo.... if you only knew the irony in your pun for me. I am a seminarian! Ha!
@ Honkin - I have used the cases before, but they are so big and I carry a lot of stuff in my pockets anyways. I am going to check into one of those sleeves mentioned.
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STME58
328 posts
Dec 14, 2012
1:48 PM
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The Seydel sleaves work pretty good but are open on the end. I carry whatever harps I haev in my pocket for the day in Crossover cases. They are a bit more compact than the hard plastic cases and the harps don't rattle when I walk.
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nacoran
6284 posts
Dec 14, 2012
1:52 PM
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All other arguments about open or closed back harps aside, my closed back harps seem to get a lot less lint in them than my open backed ones!
The real solution though is to be a little OCD about cleaning your pocket lint out, and keeping your harp in a different pocket than your change.
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SuperBee
722 posts
Dec 14, 2012
3:19 PM
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I get a buzz out of playing a harp with a coin stuck in it
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Jehosaphat
369 posts
Dec 14, 2012
3:18 PM
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@super
I can see the cents in that.
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SuperBee
723 posts
Dec 14, 2012
3:45 PM
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Ka-Ching!
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TetonJohn
24 posts
Dec 14, 2012
4:52 PM
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This little story would be better if I could remember who the musicians were but:
A harp player (less known than the musician on the stage) was called up to add a little harp to a song. He pulls the harp out of his pocket, and it won't play -- by the time he figures it all out and removes the coin -- it's too late!
Last Edited by on Dec 14, 2012 4:53 PM
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jbone
1130 posts
Dec 15, 2012
3:57 AM
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when i was a kid my grandfather was my first musical mentor. he would play harp and sing for me to lift my spirits.
after he passed i was at his home with my mom and she was helping clear away some of his stuff. being a snoopy kid i was looking in the drawers of the end tables in the living room. behold! harmonicas! but alas! either they were in pieces or in a couple of cases it would be a chromatic- not cheap even in the 60's- with a hearing aid battery stuck under the cover plate which had eaten the reeds.
i think about that these days and how, if i'd found ONE good harmonica, i may have been able to begin the music journey so much younger than i did.
early on, after getting my first harmonica- it had been my dad's, given to him the year i was born and hidden away in a box until i was about 16- i never kept it in the box. yes i had lint issues. i had to get good at taking the cover plates off to clear the reeds and this was a marine band with nails holding it together. that harp is long gone sad to say.
i would suggest putting a harp in a case or sleeve for sure. you drastically reduce the life of a harp if you have to clean it too often. and it's always nice to knoe a harp is ready the instant you find a need for it!
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