Sherwin
86 posts
Oct 03, 2013
4:50 PM
|
Frank, howdy, don't you already have some Bradicals, and and some Harrison M.B.s?.......those must be some great harps!
Sherwin.....
Last Edited by Sherwin on Oct 03, 2013 4:51 PM
|
HawkeyeKane
2087 posts
Oct 03, 2013
5:02 PM
|
@Geezer
This truly is NOTHING compared to some threads I've seen flare up over far less sensitive issues. Considering the subject was labeled OT, and further considering that the jobs of some folks on this very forum are affected by the subject at hand, I don't think it's too much to ask that those folks have a thread on this forum to vent, chime in, explain, or venture opinion in. For once....it seems the creed can be bent so long as everyone keeps behaving.
@Everyone
In the spirit of this thread's topic, a song came to mind for me this afternoon....one that sums up a great deal on this topic, and one that actually has harp in it!!!
PS - Tidbit: that's me playing harp on it in the orchestra pit. ;-)
----------
Hawkeye Kane
Last Edited by HawkeyeKane on Oct 03, 2013 5:05 PM
|
Frank
2890 posts
Oct 03, 2013
5:51 PM
|
Sherwin...indeed my friend - I had b-rad reedplates put on to marine band combs with the help of Matt Smart and they are very fine playing harmonicas - I suspect the JS Stage II will be easily as good or even much better.
|
walterharp
1187 posts
Oct 03, 2013
7:00 PM
|
my choppa joes stage II's are great, but they are not going to overcome most tech difficulties on my part.
i keep killing the 5 blow.....
|
GMaj7
287 posts
Oct 03, 2013
7:15 PM
|
I'll get in on this..
I'm classified as "essential".. so I am still reporting for work .. I'm in law enforcement.. The irony is that we really can't accomplish anything without the services of the non-essential folks who got sent home.. Furthermore, although we are reporting for work, our paychecks are reportedly to be delayed.. This whole situation is sad and unfortunate but is just another reminder of why we shouldn't live paycheck-to-paycheck and should just assume there will be some hardship come our way.
This situation is bad and it impacts the credibility of the U.S. government and frankly that is the greatest travesty in my opinion.
----------
Greg Jones
16:23 Custom Harmonicas
greg@1623customharmonicas.com
1623customharmonicas.com
|
Miles Dewar
1509 posts
Oct 03, 2013
10:34 PM
|
There's an upside:
Skydive Hawaii is offering free jumps to furloughed federal workers!
|
Aussiesucker
1328 posts
Oct 03, 2013
11:00 PM
|
Love some of the humour expressed. I guess the jokes are on you guys though.
Looking at the Canadian video re healthcare I think it has to be very similar to what we have in Oz. There are good and bad features but everyone gets looked after.
I really hate politics as we have just had elections here after having endured a long boring campaign by our 2 major parties. The ideologies of our major parties are not that different ie there is a huge margin of similarity in what they offer and stand for. Basically the difference can be explained as it is a choice between the spend more or the spend less party. The spend more party is generally the one that introduces reforms and runs us into debt then it's time for a change so the spend less party can create some more surpluses for the spend more party next time to splurge on reforms. We all pay & argue & feel hard done by.
----------
HARPOLDIE’S YOUTUBE
|
Frank
2892 posts
Oct 04, 2013
5:29 AM
|
America used to be the place where you work hard and live free.
Now it's a choice - IF you have no goals and could careless about earning a living...You are more then welcomed, even "encouraged" to sign up for a check to be sent to you along with a voters registration, wink wink...
|
groyster1
2417 posts
Oct 04, 2013
10:27 AM
|
@dougharps
yes deaks harps are very strong.......
|
dougharps
453 posts
Oct 04, 2013
11:17 AM
|
@groyster1
Yes, Deak's harps are great, and my favorites!
Out of the box I like MBDs and Crossovers, then Seydels with steel reeds and Manjis equally. Special 20s and Delta Frosts are decent, too, and more of a bargain.
----------
Doug S.
|
Rick Davis
2497 posts
Oct 04, 2013
11:23 AM
|
Doug, my harp preferences are the same as yours.
----------
-Little Rick Davis
The Blues Harp Amps Blog
The Mile High Blues Society
Tip Jar
|
Frank
2899 posts
Oct 04, 2013
11:42 AM
|
Doug, can you elaborate on why Lee Oskars don't satisfy any more?
|
dougharps
454 posts
Oct 04, 2013
1:53 PM
|
I'll take it to a new thread.
----------
Doug S.
|
arnenym
218 posts
Oct 04, 2013
2:44 PM
|
I don't understand what happend over there.
I don't understand what's wrong with helping each other
I had a gall bladder surgery some years ago. After all was done and i was back in work again it had cost me 100$ total. Included what i lost on not working that week i was on home to recover.
BTW i love this
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-30-2013/jon-stewart-s-rockin--shutdown-eve?xrs=playershare_fb
Last Edited by arnenym on Oct 04, 2013 2:46 PM
|
MP
2953 posts
Oct 04, 2013
3:00 PM
|
From Stevelegh,
"I do find it interesting how the mechanics of politics play out in different nations. I'd like to suggest to Mr Ice that UK politics is in some way better, but you watch our guys when Parliament is in session and its like watching a room full of 12 year old hecklers."
:-)
i enjoy watching the antics of your Parliament in session. it often looks as if a fist fight is going to break out but somehow it never does.
I like Crossovers, MBDs, SP/20s, GMs, and pre war MBs (especially mouse ear types, though some single tabs sound gorgeous). i thought i'd switch to Seydel but can't get used to the tone. don't care for steel reed models either. Suzuki makes nice harps like the firebreath and manji but again, i just can't get into the tone. my only deviations from Hohner are a single B-rad and a Suzuki G-48 Chromatic.
----------
MP
affordable reed replacement and repairs.
"making the world a better place, one harmonica at a time"
click user name [MP] for info-
repair videos on YouTube.
you can reach me via Facebook. Mark Prados
|
groyster1
2418 posts
Oct 04, 2013
4:02 PM
|
no matter where you go,people are really the same everywhere....only 1 perfect ever walked the landIMHO....I am very left wing and way too outspoken...but I give no one power over me....LOL
|
dougharps
457 posts
Oct 04, 2013
4:26 PM
|
@Frank
LOs just seem too airy, and overblow squeals are hard to control.
----------
Doug S.
|
groyster1
2421 posts
Oct 04, 2013
11:24 PM
|
@Miles
walter payton greatest running back EVER!!!!!I miss sweetness...
|
wolfkristiansen
213 posts
Oct 05, 2013
12:37 AM
|
Allow me, a Canadian, to talk about the beautiful country to the south of us. The country that 80 percent of the forum members come from, and the country that created the music I loved from the instant I heard it as a child, Blues with a capital B. Thank you, America.
I stay away from politics, usually. This is not the forum to discuss these things, usually.
America has money problems because it threw its money down a bottomless pit called Iraq/Afghanistan. When it stops being the world's policeman, it will recover.
Cheers,
wolf kristiansen
|
Grey Owl
348 posts
Oct 05, 2013
3:46 AM
|
I'm happy to offer customised parachutes before the bottom falls out of the market.
----------
Grey Owl YouTube
Grey Owl Abstract Photos
|
Zadozica
271 posts
Oct 05, 2013
7:07 AM
|
Frank, the heaven's operate in harmony until that problem star goes supernova.
|
Frank
2917 posts
Oct 05, 2013
7:21 AM
|
My wife and I went to this theatre at the local Science Center where they have this Giant Curving Screen. They had a movie about the universe - just a beautiful astronomical expanse of space – It’s all basically one huge “recycling” system going on, we humans are all recycled in the end...Kind of cool spinning around in space while being able to live on a planet Earth...No wonder love is so important to the sanity of man – it can get lonely without it :)
Last Edited by Frank on Oct 05, 2013 7:22 AM
|
harmonicanick
2045 posts
Oct 05, 2013
9:11 AM
|
Well said Frank
|
Grey Owl
350 posts
Oct 05, 2013
9:34 AM
|
Er,no......
Make me a Parachute, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.
...but I am cutting back. So order now to avoid disappointment.
----------
Grey Owl YouTube
Grey Owl Abstract Photos
Last Edited by Grey Owl on Oct 05, 2013 10:10 AM
|
Frank
2919 posts
Oct 05, 2013
10:26 AM
|
Do they open by sticking your head between your legs and pulling a string with your teeth :)
|
Grey Owl
351 posts
Oct 05, 2013
10:33 AM
|
:) No Frank, that's only on the OOTB chutes:)
----------
Grey Owl YouTube
Grey Owl Abstract Photos
|
Miles Dewar
1511 posts
Oct 05, 2013
10:41 AM
|
@groyster,
You got that right! Hell, Payton has thrown more touchdown passes than 3 of 4 of the last Bears QBs combined. lol
----------
---Go Chicago Bears!!!---
|
Frank
2920 posts
Oct 05, 2013
12:17 PM
|
How bout dem STEELERS :)
|
Frank
2922 posts
Oct 05, 2013
1:59 PM
|
Go Bucco's
Last Edited by Frank on Oct 05, 2013 2:01 PM
|
paulbunyn
89 posts
Oct 05, 2013
3:41 PM
|
@ superbee
Only a fool could think he/she could hold back the government with guns. The guns are because we can't/don't trust the government to protect US. Police are in place to keep the peace and pass out tickets. When the government looses control, like a catastrophe (Katrina for instance), and we are left to fend for ourselves is when "the right to keep and bear arms" kicks in. In addition to being able to hunt and put food on the table. Guns, table knives, or sharp sticks, humans will never keep other humans from killing or taking the belongings of physically weaker persons.
|
